title: Miliary tuberculosis: sonographic pattern in chest ultrasound.
abstract: Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is characterized by a multitude of small nodular opacities on chest radiography. Despite ultrasound of the chest gaining wider acceptance as a diagnostic tool of lung infections, sonographic changes of pulmonary miliary TB have not yet been reported. Here, we describe B-lines and comet-tail artifacts disseminated throughout multiple lung areas and a pattern of sub-pleural granularity as consistent changes seen in lung ultrasound of ten patients with pulmonary miliary TB diagnosed by chest radiography.
authors.affiliation: Khayelitsha District Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany. sabine.belard@charite.de.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bélard
authors.affiliation: Clinical Infectious Disease Research Initiative (CIDRI), Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergency Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: van Hoving
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Klinikum Muenchen-Perlach, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013909:Thorax / Q000473:pathology*; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography
keywords: Chest ultrasound; Diagnosis; Imaging; Miliary tuberculosis