Discrete pleural masses without effusion in a young man: an unusual presentation of tuberculosis.

S B Blunt, M G Harries

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex.

Extensive tuberculous infection of the pleura presented radiographically as multiple discrete nodules, without associated effusion or lesions of lung parenchyma.

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