Tuberculosis and malignancy
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Coexistent pulmonary tuberculosis and malignancy.
It was probably Bayle,’ who first, in 1810, reported coexistent pulmonary tuberculosis and malignancy under the description of caseous phthisis; it is doubtful, however, whether this can be considered an authentic case. The first authenticated case of both conditions existing in the same patient at the same time was reported by Penard2 in 1846. Cooper,3 in 1952, collected 40 cases of coexistent...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1460-2393,1460-2725
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcq068