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CASE REPORT
Drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as mass lesion
  1. Nishant Kumar Chauhan1,
  2. Mayank Mishra2,
  3. Shelly Singh3
  1. 1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  2. 2Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
  3. 3Department of Paediatrics, Medipulse Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nishant Kumar Chauhan, nishant97{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 33-year-old woman presented with a 1-month history of dry cough, fever, reduced appetite and weight loss. She had taken antitubercular therapy about a year prior with partial improvement in symptoms. At initial presentation, a plain chest X-ray followed by a contrast-enhanced chest CT scan was advised. The CT scan image was suggestive of a right upper lobe mass lesion. Since the patient had no sputum production, a diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy was performed. The bronchoalveolar lavage fluid analysis along with ultrasonography-guided lung biopsy was diagnostic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

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