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  • Title: [Bilateral pleural thickening pseudo-tumour due to tuberculosis].
    Author: Le Guillou F, Hubscher P, Cuvelier A, Quieffin J, Guyonnaud CD, El Haite A, Quieffin F.
    Journal: Rev Mal Respir; 2002 Sep; 19(4):515-7. PubMed ID: 12417867.
    Abstract:
    The authors report the case of a 20 year old Senegalese woman in whom pulmonary and bone tuberculosis presented as bilateral, lobulated pleural thickening without effusion, associated with a vertebral abscess at D 9-10. The diagnosis was obtained by histological examination of a CT guided pleural biopsy. After 12 months treatment there was complete resolution of the pleural disease. Tuberculous pleural disease is rarely bilateral and such presentation as a pseudo-tumour is very rare in Europe. Anatomically the pleural disease would seem to have been secondary to the vertebral disease as the result of direct spread.
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