Long-standing undiagnosed foreign body aspiration with concomitant Pulmonary tuberculosis in an Immuno-competent man

We present a 57-year-old with chronic productive cough who was diagnosed to have pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), complicated by long-standing foreign body in the tracheobronchial tree. There are many cases reported in literature where there have been misdiagnosis with respect to pulmonary TB as foreign body or foreign bodies as pulmonary TB. However, this is the first case where retained foreign body and pulmonary TB coexisted in a patient.PMID:36905249 | DOI:10.1177/14782715231161958

Source: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - March 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sheetal Chaurasia Blessy B Prabha Shalina Ray Saurav Chowdhury Source Type: research