Endobronchial tuberculosis. A report on 15 cases.
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.
Kalyoncu
F
F
Department of Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Bariş
B
B
Sahin
A A
AA
Artvinli
M
M
Baris
Y I
YI
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*