A case of pulmonary tuberculosis masquerading as lung carcinoma
Tan KT, Kannan SK, Rajahram GS
The Medical journal of Malaysia · 2019-12
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a nimble chameleon. It can manifest itself in various ways with atypical clinical and radiographic findings. In this report we discuss the importance of radiographic findings (nodular or mass-like forms) requiring a correlation with microbiological and histopathological results to differentiate lung cancer from TB.
MeSH terms
- Lung
- Sputum
- Humans
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Lung Neoplasms
- Radiography, Thoracic
- Biopsy
- Aged
- Male