# Miliary Tuberculosis with Diffuse Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Involvement

**Authors:** Hafsa Selmani, Adelard I. De Backer, Bart Ilsen

PMC · DOI: 10.5334/jbsr.3440 · Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology · 2024-01-27

## TL;DR

The paper highlights that tuberculosis should be considered in patients from high-prevalence countries showing chronic infections with lung or other organ involvement.

## Contribution

It emphasizes the importance of including tuberculosis in differential diagnoses for such patients.

## Key findings

- Tuberculosis should be considered in patients from high-prevalence regions with chronic infections.
- Both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases were observed.

## Abstract

Teaching Point: In patients coming from countries with a high
prevalence of tuberculosis and presenting with chronic infectious disease,
tuberculosis with pulmonary and/or extrapulmonary involvement should be included
in the differential diagnosis.

## Linked entities

- **Diseases:** tuberculosis (MONDO:0018076)

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** Miliary Tuberculosis (MESH:D014391), chronic (MESH:D002908), tuberculosis (MESH:D014376), infectious disease (MESH:D003141)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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