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Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare pleuritis with massive pleural effusion
Y Okada1, Y Ichinose, K Yamaguchi
1Dept of Physiology II, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
The European Respiratory Journal
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
Atypical mycobacterial infection is seldom accompanied by pleural involvement. We report a very rare case of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare pleuritis with massive pleural effusion. The patient was a non-immunocompromised 35-year-old Japanese male with insidious onset of fever, chest pain and anorexia. The pleural effusion gradually resolved with empirical antimycobacterial treatment, leaving considerable pleural adhesion and thickening.