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- Title
Pulmonary tuberculosis with atypical histopathological manifestations.
- Authors
Taniguchi, Hirokazu; Uchiyama, Akio; Shinno, Hideki; Abo, Hitoshi; Izumi, Saburo
- Abstract
This report presents a case of pulmonary tuberculosis with atypical histopathological manifestations in an immunocompetent patient. A 37-year-old Japanese man was admitted due to multiple small nodules on chest computed tomography (CT). He was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis following a culture of acid-fast bacterium from suction sputum specimens obtained by bronchoscopy. The histopathological findings from video-assisted thoracoscopy revealed small, sporadically organized, and fibrotic lesions with infiltration of eosinophils, plasma cells, and lymphocytes. The administration of antitubercular drugs eliminated the abnormal shadows on chest CT. Extreme care must be taken in the diagnosis of a patient with inexplicable histopathological findings.
- Subjects
JAPAN; TUBERCULOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE response; DISEASES in men; CHEST examination; TOMOGRAPHY; LYMPHOCYTES
- Publication
Journal of Infection & Chemotherapy (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.), 2010, Vol 16, Issue 5, p350
- ISSN
1341-321X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10156-010-0061-9