title: Tuberculosis abscess of the chest wall.
abstract: A 42-year-old male presented in June of 2011 with nocturnal fevers, night sweats, an 8-kg weight loss, and a cutaneous right chest wall mass. In March of 2013, a computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a 54 × 18 × 26-mm right lower lobe mass with peripheral calcifications, and in May of 2013, he was admitted for a segmental lobectomy, in which histologic examination of the pulmonary tissue revealed granulomas with multinucleated giant cells. The tissue was negative for acid-fast bacillae on Ziehl-Neelsen stain, and culture grew Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Therefore, he was started on four first-line antituberculosis medications and showed rapid symptomatic improvement.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cataño
authors.forename: Jefferson
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005334:Fever; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D015431:Weight Loss
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents