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  • Age/Sex 61 / F
  • Case Title 61-year-old woman with chronic couth and sputum
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

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Definitive Diagnosis
Right upper & lower lobectomy:
Bronchiectasis with chronic granulomatous inflammation and caseation necrosis, AFB (+)
MOTT was isolated
Discussion
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
Keywords
Lung, Infection, Tuberculosis,
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