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A Case of Acute Tuberculous Pleuropneumonia in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Author(s) -

Snežana Živanović,

Ljiljana Šaranac,

Gordana Kostić,

Vesna Bogicevic,

Danijela Jovancic

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the scientific world journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.453

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 2356-6140

pISSN - 1537-744X

DOI - 10.1100/tsw.2010.52

Subject(s) - medicine , pleuropneumonia , pneumonia , lymphoblastic leukemia , acute leukemia , pediatrics , leukemia , virology

Respiratory system infections are the most common complications in immunocompromised cancer patients. We here report a 14-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital because of acute pneumonia, who had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when he was 12 years old. A diagnosis of acute tuberculous pleuropneumonia was made based on clinical and radiographical findings, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified by Ziehl-Neelson acid-fast stain and culture on Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Twenty months before pneumonia onset, the patient had been treated with immunosupressive therapy (ALL IC-BFM 2002 protocol).

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