Introduction: The objective of this study was the comparison of the results of T-SPOT.TB using pleural effusion (PE) with those of IGRAs using peripheral blood (PB) or other diagnostic methods for the diagnosis of tuberculous (TB) pleurisy. Methods: We measured adenosine deaminase (ADA) in PE, QuantiFERON TB-Gold In-Tube (QFT), and T-SPOT.TB using PB, and T-SPOT.TB using PE. The definite group ...

UNLABELLED Increased pleural fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity is classically associated with tuberculous pleuritis. However, increased activity can also occur in a number of other diseases and this may negatively affect the diagnostic utility of ADA measurements and decrease its specificity for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). The presence of ADA in pleural fluids reflects the cellul...

857e862. 2. Diacon AH, Van de Wal BW, Wyser C, et al. Diagnostic tools in tuberculous pleurisy: a direct comparative study. Eur Respir J 2003;22:589e91. 3. Haybittle J. Repeated assessment of results in clinical trials of cancer treatment. Br J Radiol 1971;44:793e7. 4. Peto R, Pike M, Armitage P. Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient: ...

group are diseases requiring the same sort of treatment. A glance at the table of contents will show how this is done : the catarrhal group ; the serous effusion group (pleurisy, pericarditis, etc.) ; the calcium insufficiency group (purpura, chilblains, rickets, cretinism) ; the ansemic group (anaemia, chlorosis, Banti's disease, leukaemia) ; the vitamine insufficiency group (scurvy, beri-beri...

857e862. 2. Diacon AH, Van de Wal BW, Wyser C, et al. Diagnostic tools in tuberculous pleurisy: a direct comparative study. Eur Respir J 2003;22:589e91. 3. Haybittle J. Repeated assessment of results in clinical trials of cancer treatment. Br J Radiol 1971;44:793e7. 4. Peto R, Pike M, Armitage P. Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient: ...

S. K., a 26-month-old white male, was adnutted to the hospital because of several generalized convulsions in the preceding hour. The mother had tuberculous pleurisy with effusion in 1938. Tile father had pulmonary tuberculosis with cavitation in 1933 for which pnoumothorax was induced from 1934 to 1939 and a loboctomy performed in 1940. Since 1942 neither parent showed signs of active tuberculo...

Although the majority of patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis have pulmonary involvement, some cases have pleural involvement as extra-pulmonary sites of infection. We herein report a case of upper lobe-predominant pulmonary fibrosis that developed in a 47-year-old male with a history of bilateral tuberculous pleurisy. Based on his chest radiological findings, pleuroparenchymal fibroelastos...

This is a case report of spinal tuberculosis combined with sacroiliac joint tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, chest wall tuberculosis and tuberculous pleurisy and the image of the patient is rare, special and not typical and it looks like a halo sign. It has an important reference value for the diagnosis of spine tuberculosis although it is a rare imaging manifestation and diagnosis was con...