LEUKAEMOID REACTIONS IN DISSEMINATED TUBERCULOSIS

Leukaemoid reactions in disseminated tuberculosis.

Secondary haematological changes in tuberculosis may mimic many blood dyscrasias, including leukaemia. The appearance of primitive white cells in the peripheral blood is probably more common in disseminated than in pulmonary tuberculosis (Muller, 1943; O'Brien, 1954). The reaction may involve any cell type: myeloid reactions have been reported by Marzullo and deVeer (1931) and Custer and Crocke...

Pancytopenia in disseminated tuberculosis.

Disseminated tuberculosis: Challenges in diagnosis

Introduction: Disseminated tuberculosis is difficult to identify and probably underdiagnosed. Its prevalence in non-HIV patients is rising and a high index of suspicion must always be present, especially when other diseases are present, because there is usually considerable signs and symptoms overlap between them. Also, difficulties in obtaining adequate tissue specimens and body fluids is freq...

Disseminated multi-organ tuberculosis.

A 58-year-old immunocompetent man presented with a 6-month history of cough, fever and swelling of the upper chest wall. Computed tomography showed involvement of the clavicle, sternum, lungs, pleura and pericardium. Trans-bronchial biopsy of the lungs, and surgical debridement with partial resection of the manubrium revealed infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Figs. 1 and 2). Fig. 1. Co...

disseminated tuberculosis presenting as hypersplenism

background occurrence of hypersplenism in tb is very rare. we report a case of dtb with hypersplenism presentation. case presentation a 23year old man was admitted with complaints of fever, night sweats, anorexia, headache, shortness of breath, early satiety that had started 10 days ago. he had been well until 9 months ago, when early satiety developed for the first time. physical and ultrasono...