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- Title
LUNG GANGRENE WITH CAVITY DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS PRESENTING AS PNEUMOTHORAX: A RARE COMPLICATION IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENT.
- Authors
Patil, Prashant Sadashiv; Gupta, Abhaya; Paras, Kothari; Geeta, Kekre; Shahaji, Deshmukh; Dikshit, K. Vishesh; Kulkarni, Apoorva
- Abstract
The common perception is that children rarely develop severe forms of tuberculosis. A variety of sequelae and complications can occur in the pulmonary and extrapulmonary portions of the thorax in treated or untreated patients. Lung gangrene due to tuberculosis has been described in adult patients. However lung gangrene due to tuberculosis is rarely reported in paediatric patients. We report a case of 2 year old female child with lung gangrene and massive cavity due to tuberculosis.
- Subjects
TUBERCULOSIS complications; LUNG gangrene; CHILD patients
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Surgical Specialties, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 4, p37
- ISSN
2066-2009
- Publication type
Article