Cannon ball appearance on radiology in a middle-aged diabetic female.
Pulmonary tuberculosis is commonly presented as cavitary lesion and infiltrations. It commonly involves upper lobe. Lower lobe involvement is less common. Various atypical presentations of tuberculosis on radiology are reported like mass, solitary nodule, multi lober involvement including lower lobes. Atypical presentations are more commo in patients with immunocompromised conditions like Diabetes Mellitus, anemia, renal failure, liver diseases, HIV infection, malignancy, patients on immunosuppressive therapy. Cannon ball presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis is extremely rare and not so common. Common causes of cannon ball presentation in lung are metastasis, fungal infections, Wegener's grannulomatosis, sarcoidosis, etc. We report here a case of middle year female with diabetes mellitus presented with atypical symptoms with cannon ball appearance on radiology and found to be of tuberculosis in origin. Thus any patients with immunocompromised condition can present with atypical manifestation of tuberculosis either clinically or radiologicaly in high endemic countries for tuberculosis.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Ravish
R
Kshatriya
Department of Radiology, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Viral
V
Patel
Department of Pathology, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Sanjay
S
Chaudhari
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Spandan Hospital Anand, Anand, Gujarat, India.
Purvesh
P
Patel
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Dhaval
D
Prajapati
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Nimit
N
Khara
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Rajiv
R
Paliwal
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pramukhswami Medical College, Shree Krishna Hospital, Karamsad, India.
Sateesh
S
Patel
Cannon ball appearance; diabetes; pulmonary tuberculosis