Multifarious Relationship between Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Smita Divate, Sagar Damani, Lakshmi Menon, Pradeep Vaideeswar, Amita Athavale
Annals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine · 2020-01
Abstract
Background: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disorder which is categorized into congenital, idiopathic and secondary types. There is a marked paucity of literature from the Indian subcontinent that analyses the causation of PAP.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Risk factor
- Disease
- Immunology
- Pathology
- Dermatology
- Internal medicine
- Lung