Pulmonary tuberculosis related diffuse cystic lung disease with recurrent pneumothorax mimicking pulmonary lymphangioleomyomatosis in Ethiopia: A review and case report.

ABSTRACT: Millions of individuals worldwide are afflicted by the fatal infectious disease tuberculosis, which accounts for thousands of avoidable deaths. The literature has provided a good description of the clinical manifestation and radiologic features of pulmonary tuberculosis. However, the parenchymal complication of pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as cystic lung disease, has not been widely documented in the literature and is one of the incredibly uncommon causes of diffuse cystic lung disease. It is very uncommon to have a patient with possible pulmonary lymphangioleomyomatosis to be superinfected with bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis. This report describes a young female patient who was admitted to the hospital, had repeated chest tube insertions and drainage of recurrent spontaneou

SUBMITTER: Churako H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11617782 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature