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- Title
An Adolescent Presenting With a Pleural Mass.
- Authors
Ganapathi, Lakshmi; Pierre, Ketsia; Hollowell, Monica; Sandora, Thomas J.
- Abstract
The article presents a case report of a seventeen-year-old male from Zimbabwe who arrived in the U.S. and referred by his boarding school's physician for a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) and abnormal chest radiograph. The patient subsequently underwent computed tomography (CT) of the thorax and induced sputum samples and early morning gastric aspirate samples were collected for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) stain and culture. Patient was diagnosed with pleural tuberculosis and was discharged.
- Subjects
PLEURA disease diagnosis; TREATMENT of pleura diseases; TUBERCULOSIS diagnosis; TUBERCULOSIS treatment; CHEST X rays; TUBERCULIN test
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 5, p504
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0009922814526988