title: Pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis showing wandering shadows in chest roentgenograms.
abstract: The case of a 68-year-old woman with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis, whose chest roentgenograms showed unusual wandering shadows on separate occasions, is presented. Acid-fast bacilli were detected in her sputa and by bronchial washing, and were identified as Mycobacterium chelonae, subspecies abscessus. The findings of computed tomography and transbronchial lung biopsy were also unique because of multiple peribronchial inflammations. Chemotherapy with anti-tuberculosis agents and a new quinolone drug was successful in this case.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kunikane
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kusaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuze
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawakami
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology; D016926:Mycobacterium chelonae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology