[Pulmonary tuberculosis in diagnostic imaging: the great mime]

Recenti Prog Med. 2018 Apr;109(4):220-225. doi: 10.1701/2896.29193.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is nowadays one of the most common causes of infectious disease-related morbility and mortality worldwide. The differential diagnosis between TB and some others conditions is an emerging problem, particularly challenging when TB imaging mimicks sarcoidosis, lymphoproliferative disorders and pulmonary neoplasms. In these cases, the correct diagnoses can be made with certainty only with trans-bronchial or CT guided biopsy.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy / methods
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymphoproliferative Disorders / diagnostic imaging
  • Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / mortality