Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: An 81-year-old woman was admitted due to a painful mass in her left chest wall. She first noticed the chest mass one week before admission. The mass was elastic, soft, hot and painful. Computed tomography imaging (Picture A) detected a solitary isodensity mass. Fat-suppressed T2weighted magnetic resonance imaging (Picture B, C) showed a 653 cm sized high-intensity abscess located between serratus anterior and latissimus dorsi muscles. She un-derwent the creation of a small incision and drainage. We detected Mycobacterium tuberculosis after performing a Ziehl-Neelsen stained smear assay, culture and polymerase chain reaction of the content of the mass. We initiated treatment with standard anti-tuberculous drugs, which were planned to be continued for six to nine months.
Source: Internal Medicine
Institution: Yokohama Municipal Citizen's Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2018996932