After The Times published an interview with John Green about his new book on tuberculosis, many readers wrote to share their ...

The role of surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma encompasses the need for rapid diagnosis, preoperative staging and surgical resection of this rare and aggressive malignancy.

In 1 a pleural biopsy was positive for tuberculosis, but internal-mammary-lymph-node biopsy was normal. The 2 cases in which the organism was never isolated are described above.

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Cultures of the pleural fluid remained negative. Cell-block examination revealed giant cells. The impression, therefore, was tuberculous pleural effusion.

X-rays are essential to the initial assessment and management of TB. They show characteristic features associated with TB infection, such as lung infiltrates.

Disseminated tuberculosis occurs when the bacteria that cause tuberculosis spread via blood to other organs beyond the lungs. Read on.

A Michigan patient died from an outbreak of tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone graft material that has killed at least one other, officials say.

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Empyema often co-occurs with pneumonia and refers to the presence of pus in the pleural space. There is a range of therapeutic options available for the management of empyema, divided broadly into ...

After surgery we examined surgical specimen for mycobacterium tuberculosis using the smear microscopy, molecular-genetic and culture tests, and then monthly thereafter we examined sputum by smear ...