Tuberculous Abscess of the Chest Wall Simulate Pyogenic Abscess
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Tuberculous abscess on the chest wall.
A 58-year old patient on dialysis for four years due to chronic renal failure presented with complaints of painless, continuously growing swelling on the left of his back and coughing, symptoms evolving over a period of approximately 3 months. Physical examination revealed a soft fixed mass of 10 x 10 x 4 cm on the left infrascapular area on the chest wall. The sample taken from the inflammatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Radiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6862,2090-6870
DOI: 10.1155/2015/195412