TB Research

Simultaneity of Tuberculosis and CLL : A Case Report

Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Babak Sayad, Arefeh Babazadeh, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Sara Mohammadnia

Abstract

Tuberculosis infection and malignancies have lots of similarities in their symptoms which may cause misdiagnoses, which can be life-threatening for the patient.Sometimes these two can occur at the same time, which may lead to the misdiagnosing or a delay in diagnosis of either TB or the malignancy, and both can be deathful.

MeSH terms

  • Simultaneity
  • Tuberculosis