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Endobronchial tuberculosis mimicking lung cancer in elderly patients
P Van den Brande1, M Lambrechts, J Tack
1Division of Geriatric Medicine, St. Norbertus Hospital Duffel, Leuven, Belgium.
Respiratory Medicine
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
We report four elderly patients with cough who were referred with the presumptive diagnosis of bronchial carcinoma based on chest X-ray and the macroscopic view on fibreoptic bronchoscopy, but whose final diagnosis was endobronchial tuberculosis. Chest X-ray showed atypical pulmonary infiltrates in three patients, but was normal in one. Bronchoscopic examination revealed ulcerative and/or stenotic lesions. Endobronchial tuberculosis should be considered in differential diagnosis, especially in the elderly.