International Journal of Mycobacteriology (Jan 2016)

Pulmonary aspergilloma: An evasive disease

  • Afua Ofori,
  • Alexis R Steinmetz,
  • John Akaasi,
  • George A. Asafu Adjaye Frimpong,
  • Betty R Norman,
  • Joseph Obeng-Baah,
  • George Bedu-Addo,
  • Richard O Phillips

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmyco.2016.03.002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 235 – 239

Abstract

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Aspergillomas are often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (TB) in developing countries where the prevalence of TB is high, hemoptysis is often equated with TB, and most patients are diagnosed clinically. This report describes the case of a patient being treated for smear-negative TB who presented with hemoptysis and was found to have an aspergilloma.

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