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Rare disease
Aspergilloma lung mimicking tuberculosis
  1. Veena Maheshwari1,
  2. Manoranjan Varshney1,
  3. Kiran Alam1,
  4. Roobina Khan1,
  5. Anshu Jain1,
  6. Kavita Gaur1,
  7. Rakesh Bhargava2
  1. 1Pathology Department, J. N.Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. 2TB and Chest Disease, J. N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavita Gaur, kavgaur{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 50-year-old male presented with haemoptysis. Patient had previous history of pulmonary tuberculosis. A tentative diagnosis of fungal ball was made on radiological examination. Surgical removal of lobe of lung was done and on histopathological examination a final diagnosis of aspergilloma was rendered.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.04.2011.4051

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