miliary tuberculosis


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nounacute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream)

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Immunopreventive actions Miliary tuberculosis 0.29 0.16 0.14 Acute Hepatitis B 0.24 0.14 0.07 Tetanus 0.05 0.02 0.02 2.
Multibacillary forms (easily detected in cutaneous tissue) include tuberculous chancre, scrofuloderma, orificial tuberculosis, acute miliary tuberculosis, and tuberculous gumma [17,18].
Miliary tuberculosis is commonly associated with miliary pneumonia.
Bhagwandass, "Miliary tuberculosis presenting with ards and shock: a case report and challenges in current management and diagnosis," Case Reports in Critical Care, vol.
From this analysis, we propose that in addition to scurvy or lead poisoning, miliary tuberculosis resulting in adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease) may also have been the etiology for the conditions described.
Splenic tubercular abscess are known to be associated with miliary tuberculosis or with haematological diseases where leucopenia and thrombocytopenia are profound (9).
In our study, there were 66(16.1%) cases of tuberculosis out of 410 cases, among which 11 cases (16.7%) are of miliary tuberculosis involving lung, liver, kidney,and spleen.
Doko et al., "Two cases of miliary tuberculosis following prosthetic valve replacement," Respiration and Circulation, vol.
Tuberculosis of the spleen is rare, except as a part of miliary tuberculosis [2].
Horne, "Miliary tuberculosis in adults," British Medical Journal, vol.
The chest X-ray showed miliary pulmonary nodules compatible with miliary tuberculosis which was later confirmed by positive polymerase-chain-reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in his sputum.
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia misdiagnosed as miliary tuberculosis: a case report and literature review.
In this case, disseminated infection including miliary tuberculosis and fungal infection, drug-induced interstitial pneumonia, intravenous talc granulomatosis, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, and pneumoconiosis needed to be differentiated; however, a definite diagnosis was made by the histological finding of non-necrotizing epithelioid granuloma with multinucleated giant cells (Figure 1b).