Open AccessA Case Report of Tuberculosis Mimicking Metastatic Lung Cancer
Author(s) -
Seyfettin Gümüş
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the annals of clinical and analytical medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2667-663X
DOI - 10.4328/jcam.256
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , lung cancer , medicine , cancer , pathology
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by M. Tuberculosis Complex thatinvolves both mainly lungs and other organs. Post-primary pulmonary TB is mostlyseen in adults. It is usually located in apical region of lungs and makes cavitarylesions. We can see different clinical pictures in the areas of high incidence withTB. In the differential diagnosis of nodular and cavitary lesions in the lungs, metastaticlung cancer, wegener granulomatosis and TB are included. We report a casewith different radiological appearance and a clinical sign that has extra-TB differentialdiagnosis which most possible cause is metastatic lung cancer