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Pulmonary tuberculosis mimicking lung cancer progression after 10 years of cancer remission
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Abstract
Differentiation between pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer is often challenging for clinicians, especially that both conditions
can coexist. This is due to the fact that the clinical and radiological symptoms of both diseases can be similar.
Our case report presents a patient who was treated for advanced lung cancer 10 years earlier and currently has been hospitalized
again because of a strong clinical and radiological suspicion of the cancer progression, but whose final diagnosis was tuberculosis.
Abstract
Differentiation between pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer is often challenging for clinicians, especially that both conditions
can coexist. This is due to the fact that the clinical and radiological symptoms of both diseases can be similar.
Our case report presents a patient who was treated for advanced lung cancer 10 years earlier and currently has been hospitalized
again because of a strong clinical and radiological suspicion of the cancer progression, but whose final diagnosis was tuberculosis.
Keywords
lung cancer, suspicion of progression, tuberculosis
About this articleTitle
Pulmonary tuberculosis mimicking lung cancer progression after 10 years of cancer remission
Journal
Advances in Respiratory Medicine
Issue
Article type
Case report
Pages
92-96
Published online
2018-04-30
DOI
10.5603/ARM.2018.0012
Pubmed
Bibliographic record
Adv Respir Med 2018;86(2):92-96.
Keywords
lung cancer
suspicion of progression
tuberculosis
Authors
Justyna Fijołek
Elżbieta Wiatr
Małgorzata Polubiec-Kownacka
Katarzyna Błasińska-Przerwa
Małgorzata Szołkowska
Ewa Szczepulska-Wójcik
Kazimierz Roszkowski-Śliż
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