Misdiagnosis of a multi-organ involvement hematogenous disseminated tuberculosis as metastasis: a case report and literature review
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a great mimicker and diagnostic chameleon, and prone to be diagnosed as malignancy. Even though many reports have described the differences between pulmonary TB and lung cancer, the atypical systemic hematogenous disseminated TB (HDTB) is very rare and more c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-06-01
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Series: | Infectious Diseases of Poverty |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40249-020-00681-8 |