Identification of disguised extrapulmonary tuberculosis

One of the most important messages from the recent review is that diagnostic difficulty can occur as a result of clinical presentations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that overlap with other conditions [1]. Conditions which can overlap with extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis include extrapulmonary manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease (IgG4-RD) and cryptococcal infection. In each of these disorders the extrapulmonary complications which occur may be indistinguishable from the extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research