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Title

Primary Tubercular Chest Wall Abscess in a Young Immunocompetent Male.

Authors

Sharma, Shweta; Mahajan, R. K.; Myneedu, V. P.; Sharma, B. B.; Duggal, Nandini

Abstract

Chest wall tuberculosis is a rare entity especially in an immunocompetent patient. Infection may result from direct inoculation of the organisms or hematogenous spread from some underlying pathology. Infected lymph nodes may also transfer the bacilli through lymphatic route. Chest wall tuberculosis may resemble a pyogenic abscess or tumour and entertaining the possibility of tubercular etiology remains a clinical challenge unless there are compelling reasons of suspicion. In tuberculosis endemic countries like India, all the abscesses indolent to routine treatment need investigation to rule out mycobacterial causes. We present here a case of chest wall tuberculosis where infection was localized to skin only and, in the absence of any evidence of specific site, it appears to be a case of primary involvement.

Subjects

TUBERCULOSIS case studies; PATIENT management; HEALTH management; LUNG disease diagnosis; LUNG disease treatment

Publication

Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2014, p1

ISSN

2090-6846

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1155/2014/357456

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