tuberculos gumma is one of the various clinical manifestations of cutaneous tb that is characterized by non tender, undolent subcutaneous nodules which progressively involve the skin and take the appearance of an ulcer. in this article, we present two young patients, affected with tuberculos gumma. one of them, presented with multiple abcesses on the face and extremities, associated with pulmon...

Background & Aims: Tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of mortality in the world and if it is not treated, 50 – 65% of patients would die in five years. Chest X-ray has an important role in the diagnosis of TB and early diagnosis and treatment prevent tuberculosis transmission. In this study we evaluated radiologic manifestations of patients with smear positive pulmonary tubercu...

background: the present study aimed to identify the spatial distribution of tuberculosis and determine the tb control program parameters in the regions supervised by shiraz university of medical sciences in 2006-2012. methods: the present ecological study was performed on 1797 tb patients in shiraz university in 2006-2012 which were recorded by health centers using tb register software. the stu...

Background: Chest x-ray has an important role in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). The aim of this study was to determine the radiological changes in patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis.Methods: In this study, 325 patients with smear positive pulmonary TB was enrolled. The affected lobe or lobes of the left or right lung were recorded. The types of involvement were categorized...

BACKGROUND We compared the usefulness of tuberculin skin test (TST) and three interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) [QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT-2G), QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-tube (QFT-3G), T-SPOT.TB] as the supportive method for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). METHODS The subjects were 66 patients who required clinical differentiation of pulmonary TB. The final clinical diagnosis of pul...

PURPOSE We aimed to assess computed tomography (CT) findings of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and TB pleurisy in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and to evaluate the effect of duration of DM on radiologic findings of pulmonary TB and TB pleurisy. METHODS Ninety-three consecutive patients diagnosed as active pulmonary TB with underlying DM were enrolled in our study. As a control group, 100 pulmo...

background cigarettes smoking is a risk factor for tuberculosis (tb). associations between smoking and tb disease have been reported, but there are few reports on the influence of smoking on the sputum smear and culture conversion time. this study surveyed the possible association between smoking and sputum smear conversion time among new smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. patients...

The objective: to evaluate immediate and postponed results of surgical treatment tuberculosis (TB) in patients with TB/HIV co-infection. Subjects methods. 106 underwent surgery: 64 suffering from pulmonary (81.2% had resections, 18.8% – thoracoplasty), 36 tuberculous spondylitis (vertebral body resection combination anterior spondylodesis), 6 cerebral TB (removal lesions under neuronavigation)....