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Tuberculosis; Other names: Phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, great white plague: Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrow-heads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows. Specialty: Infectious disease, pulmonology: Symptoms
Tuberculosis plays a major role in the 2018 western video game Red Dead Redemption 2. In the game, the protagonist Arthur Morgan contracts the disease after an altercation with a diseased farmer, giving him only a short time to live following his diagnosis. Faced with his own mortality, he becomes more conscious of his actions and tries to ...
Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1–5 mm). Its name comes from a distinctive pattern seen on a chest radiograph of many tiny spots distributed throughout the lung fields with the appearance similar to millet seeds—thus the term "miliary" tuberculosis.
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Additional X-ray images Chest X-ray Atlas - Select Diseases|Tuberculosis for TB CXR case studies (X-ray pictures showing cavities, infiltrates, scarring, pleural effusion, interstitial nodules of military TB, and TB spine) - from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine ©
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Aspergilloma in an old tuberculosis cavity; healed, calcified tuberculous lesions are also present towards the right of the image Healed tuberculous cavity, where the entire left lung is destroyed. Post-tuberculosis lung disease (PTLD) is ongoing lung disease that is caused by tuberculosis (TB) but persists after the infection is cured. [1]
Tuberculosis Symptoms From eMedicineHealth. Author: George Schiffman, MD, FCCP. Last Editorial Review: 1/15/2009; Additional symptoms for primary/early pulmonary infection: wrongdiagnosis.com --> Diseases » Tuberculosis » Symptoms Retrieved on June 1, 2009; Date: 1 June 2009: Source: All used images are in public domain. Author: Mikael ...