Imaging of Non-tuberculous (Atypical) Mycobacterial Pulmonary Infection.
Pulmonary infections due to mycobacterial organisms are increasing in incidence. Non-tuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria (NTM) represent a significant proportion of mycobacterial infections and may prove difficult to diagnose due to their non-specific clinical and radiographic presentations. An increasing volume of radiological data is now available for the more common non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections, and we have summarized the imaging features found in such cases, identifying radiographic features that would favour the diagnosis of a non-tuberculous mycobacterium and that, in some cases, suggest a specific organism.
Ellis
S M
SM
Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, U.K.
Hansell
D M
DM
D006801:Humans; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology