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Bronchiolo-alveolar cell carcinoma with apparent response to chemotherapy to anti-tuberculosis
1Department of Internal Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria.
East African Medical Journal
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
This report describes a case of bronchiolo-alveolar cell carcinoma of the lungs presenting with severe respiratory distress and miliary shadowing on chest radiograms. The patient showed an apparent response to anti-tuberculous chemotherapy, which was probably related to the neuropsychiatric properties of isoniazid. The case illustrates that not all "miliary" chest radiograms in Africa are tuberculous and a chemotherapeutic trial is not always diagnostic in individual cases of tuberculosis.