대한흉부영상의학회 Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology

Discussion

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,