Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem and one of the main causes of death. Pseudotumoural pulmonary TB is a rare radiological manifestation of pulmonary TB, mimicking lung carcinoma. Herein, we report four immunocompetent adults who presented with large masses and were diagnosed to have parenchymal pseudotumoral tuberculosis, followed at the Pneumology Department of University Hospital Center Mohammed VI of Marrakesh in Morocco between April 2019 and January 2022. five cases were included in the study. All patients initially presented with general and respiratory symptoms, with radiological findings simulating lung carcinoma. Tuberculosis was diagnosed from microbiological testing and/or histological examination results. All patients were immunocompetent. All patients were treated successfully with antimycobacterial therapy.
Source: SAS Journal of Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4366988739