title: Tuberculosis in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of our study was to describe radiological manifestations of tuberculosis in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Chest radiographs and CTs of 12 patients with tuberculosis among 195 consecutive patients with myelodysplastic syndrome, proved by bone marrow biopsy, were reviewed. Six of the 12 patients presented with tuberculosis and were subsequently found to have myelodysplastic syndrome.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Chest radiographs and CTs revealed pulmonary tuberculosis in all 12 patients and extrapulmonary tuberculous involvement in six (50%). Initial chest radiographic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis included a primary pattern (n = 6), a post-primary pattern (n = 3), a miliary pattern (n = 1), atypical infiltrates (n = 1) and normal radiograph (n = 1). Tuberculosis involved extrathoracic lymph nodes (n = 5), liver (n = 2), spleen (n = 2), kidney (n = 2), bowel (n = 2), pericardium (n = 2) peritoneum (n = 1) and rib (n = 1).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tuberculosis is a relatively common cause of infection in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. The radiological appearance of pulmonary tuberculosis in myelodysplastic syndromes is often a primary pattern, and there is frequently extrapulmonary involvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Clinical Research Institute, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyo-Cheol
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin Mo
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Goo
authors.forename: Hyun Beom
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Joon Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Joon Beom
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Jung-Gi
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Im
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008206:Lymphatic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging