Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Infection

Brief Discussion

Right upper & lower lobectomy:
  Bronchiectasis with chronic granulomatous inflammation and caseation necrosis, AFB (+) 
  MOTT was isolated

Clinical & radiographic spectrum are usually indistinguishable from M. tuberculosis

- Two main group (Miller WT Jr. Radiology 1993)
   1. 60s, 70s with underlying chronic lung ds
         Linear nodular opacity, cavitation
   2. Elderly women without lung ds
         Scattered bronchiectasis, multiple centrilobular nodules

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