Roentgenogram of the Issue : A Case of Tuberculoma Resembling Metastatic Carcinoma

Park, Sang Bae; Lee, Jin Hong; Kim, Kwang Jung; Lee, Kwang Young; Kim, Kui Wan; Kim, Jong Jun

doi:1988.35.3.216

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 35(3); 1988 > Article

Roenfgenogram of fhe Issue

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1988;35(3):216-219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1988.35.3.216 Published online September 1, 1988.

Roentgenogram of the Issue : A Case of Tuberculoma Resembling Metastatic Carcinoma

Sang Bae Park, Jin Hong Lee, Kwang Jung Kim, Kwang Young Lee, Kui Wan Kim, Jong Jun Kim

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, ChonJu, Korea
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, ChonJu, Korea

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박상배, 이진홍, 김광중, 이광영, 김귀완, 김종준

Abstract

A tuberculoma is a sharply circumscribed parencymal nodule, often containing viable tubercle bacilli, that can develop in either primary or secondary disease The patient who is a 19-year-old woman with chief complaints of cough, dyspnes & recent hemoptysis and has metastatic lesions on chest X-ray & chest CT scan and past history of spontaneous abortion 3 months ago, identified with percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy for the diagnosis of tuberculoma. We report a case of tuberculoma resembling metastatic nodule with reference.