A massive hemorrhagic pleural effusion does not exclude the diagnosis of tuberculosis: a case report

We report a case of an immunocompetent 18-year-old man with a massive hemorrhagic, exudative, lymphocytic pleural effusion. Blind transthoracic pleural biopsy showed granuloma formation, while the pleural fluid culture was positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, confirming the diagnosis of primary...

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Autori principali: Mermigkis, Charalampos, Kopanakis, Antony, Psathakis, Kostas, Karagiannidis, Napoleon, Kastanakis, Manolis, Patentalakis, Michael, Amfilochiou, Anastasia, Patentalakis, Georgios, Polychronopoulos, Vlassis
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740155/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830095
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8707
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