title: Endobronchial tuberculosis. A report on 15 cases.
abstract: Fifteen patients were diagnosed between 1973 and 1987 at Hacettepe University Hospital as having endobronchial tuberculosis. They were subjected to bronchoscopy because of provisional diagnoses of primary bronchogenic carcinoma in 7 cases, bronchial asthma in 3 cases, tuberculosis in 2 cases and hydatid cyst, foreign body aspiration and bronchiectasis in 1 case each. In those patients in whom the initial clinical diagnosis was primary bronchogenic carcinoma, it was difficult to differentiate endobronchial tuberculosis either by radiography or bronchoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kalyoncu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bariş
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Artvinli
authors.forename: Y I
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Baris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis*