A case of pulmonary tuberculosis masquerading as lung carcinoma

Tan KT 1 , Kannan SK 2 , Rajahram GS 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. tankoktong85@gmail.com
  • 2 Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • 3 Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Department of Infectious Disease, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Med J Malaysia, 2019 12;74(6):547-548.
PMID: 31929486

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a nimble chameleon. It can manifest itself in various ways with atypical clinical and radiographic findings. In this report we discuss the importance of radiographic findings (nodular or mass-like forms) requiring a correlation with microbiological and histopathological results to differentiate lung cancer from TB.

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