Surgical Treatment of Complications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, including Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Surgical Treatment of Complications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, including Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Surgery for drug-resistant tuberculosis has been shown to be safe and effective, with similar level of mortalities associated with surgical intervention observed with that for lung cancer. While surgery has been an option to treat TB in the pre-antibiotic era, it is now increasingly used to treat c...

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Main Authors: Rajhmun Madansein, Shreemanta Parida, Nesri Padayatchi, Nalini Singh, Iqbal Master, Kantharuben Naidu, Alimuddin Zumla, Markus Maeurer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-03-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Surgery
tuberculosis
lung resection
TB
M. tuberculosis
hemoptysis
empyema thoracis
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971215000259

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