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Tuberculosis mimicking malignancy

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2015

Abstract

The authors present a case report of a 49-year-old man with a central tumor and few tumors in left lung suspected of being lung cancer. The patient underwent an operation, a left pneumonectomy with systemic mediastinal lymphadenectomy.

The tumor was described as a tuberculoma in the final histopathological examination. The patient was treated by antituberculotics.

Tuberculosis can imitate various diseases; in our patient was suspected lung cancer. It is necessary to understand tuberculosis in a wide context.

The therapy is therefore a result of cooperation of many specialists.