TB Research

[A case of giant pleural tuberculoma].

Y Q Li, Kunkun Sun, X H, Zhancheng Gao

PubMed · 2023-10

Abstract

We retrospectively analyzed a rare case of giant pleural tuberculoma. The patient was a female, 62 years old, admitted to hospital for intermittent fever and hemoptysis. The CT scan of the chest and abdomen showed a mass in the right thoracic cavity, and the uneven surface of the bilateral fallopian tubes. Routine blood tests showed a decrease in platelets, white blood cells, and hemoglobin. The mass in the chest was finally confirmed as a tuberculoma by biopsy. The patient was diagnosed with tuberculosis more than 9 years ago and had been treated with anti-tuberculosis drugs for more than 9 years, which caused damage to the liver, bone marrow and other organs, and led to the drug-resistant tuberculosis, making diagnosis and treatment more complex.

MeSH terms

  • Tuberculoma
  • Medicine
  • Tuberculosis
  • Abdomen
  • Lung
  • Pleural thickening
  • Radiology
  • Pleural cavity
  • Biopsy
  • Thoracic cavity
  • Surgery
  • Giant cell
  • Hemothorax
  • Computed tomography