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The imaging spectrum of pulmonary tuberculosis in AIDS
Daniel P Saurborn1, Joel E Fishman, Phillip M Boiselle
1Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
|February 6, 2002
Abstract
Summary:
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is the major opportunistic infection of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) on a worldwide basis. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to illustrate and review the spectrum of imaging findings associated with pulmonary TB in patients with AIDS and to describe important factors that may complicate the radiographic follow-up of patients being treated for TB.