Pulmonary tuberculosis: a common diagnosis at INER at Unbounded Medicine

Pulmonary tuberculosis: a common diagnosis at INER

Published by Jon Mikel Iñarritu October 27th, 2005 in Medical Images Tags: .

A 24 year old woman who presented at INER (Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias) at Mexico City complaining of shortness of breath, weight loss, and chronic cough. This image shows a classic radiographic appearance of pulmonary tuberculosis. An heterogeneous image with alveolar filling pattern and homogeneous opacity are observed at the right apex. Elevation of right hemidiaphragm due to atelectasia is also shown.

Gerardo Morales-Mora

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1 JonMikel, M.D. Nov 5th, 2005 at 9:52 pm

About TB images. You can enter Flickr

You can also look at this pic, Or this other.

Regards,

Jon Mikel

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