Items tagged “tb”
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Renal tuberculosis
Renal tuberculosis, a subset of genitourinary tuberculosis, accounts for 15-20% of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and can result in varied and striking radiographic appearances.
Tuberculosis can involve both the renal parenchyma and the collecting system (calyces, renal pelvis, ureter, bladder a...
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Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis
Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis, also known as scrofula and king's evil, continues to be seen in endemic areas and in the industrialised world particularly among the immunocompromised.
Epidemiology
Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis is the most common manifestation of extrapulmonary tubercu...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (commonly abbreviated to TB, short for tubercle bacillus) encompasses an enormously wide disease spectrum affecting multiple organs and body systems predominantly caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A small proportion can also be caused by Mycobacterium bovis through ...
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Tuberculous otomastoiditis
Tuberculous otomastoiditis is an uncommon form of acute otomastoiditis that occurs secondary to tuberculosis infection, although its frequency is increasing as a result of greater population of immunocompromised patients.
Clinical presentation
Classically it is described as presenting with
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Tuberculous neck nodes
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Tuberculoma with hydrocephalus
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27 Dec 2008
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Tuberculous abscess
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Tuberculous discitis, osteomyelitis and paravertebral abscess
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11 Jun 2009
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
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18 Nov 2009
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Thoracoplasty
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22 Jan 2010
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Tuberculous mediastinal abscess
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28 Jan 2010
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Advanced pulmonary tuberculosis
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15 Feb 2010
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Tuberculosis (intracranial manifestations)
Tuberculosis of the central nervous system can result from either hematogenous spread from distant systemic infection (e.g. pulmonary tuberculosis) or direct extension from local infection (e.g. tuberculous otomastoiditis).
Intracranial manifestations of tuberculosis are protean and can affect ...
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Tuberculosis (pulmonary manifestations)
Pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis are varied and depend in part whether the infection is primary or post-primary. The lungs are the most common site of primary infection by tuberculosis and are a major source of spread of the disease and of individual morbidity and mortality.
A general d...
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
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18 Feb 2010
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Tuberculous leptomeningitis (gross pathology)
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Miliary tuberculosis (pathology)
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18 Feb 2010
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Ghon lesion
A Ghon lesion, sometimes called a Ghon focus, represents a tuberculous caseating granuloma (tuberculoma) and represents a sequela of primary pulmonary tuberculosis infection.
Terminology
Radiologically, this term is used quite loosely to refer to a calcified granuloma; technically, the Ghon le...
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Ranke complex (tuberculosis)
Ranke complex is seen in 'healed' primary pulmonary tuberculosis and is a later manifestation of the Ghon complex. It consists of two components:
a Ghon lesion that has undergone calcification
an ipsilateral calcified mediastinal node
It is important to note that a Ranke complex is not specif...
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Tuberculosis - Ghon lesion (gross pathology)
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