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Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as suspected foreign body aspiration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2007
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a disease of protean manifestations, and despite a falling incidence is still prevalent in our society.
We present a case of a child whose history and preoperative chest radiograph suggested the presence of a foreign body, but subsequent examination of the material removed at endoscopy revealed a diagnosis of tuberculosis. We suggest that all friable material removed from the lower respiratory tract be submitted for microscopy, culture and histopathology with this diagnosis in mind.
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