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Case Report
Replacement of one lung by a large bulla in active tuberculosis
  1. Sulaiman A Al-Majed
  1. Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia

    Abstract

    A 70-year-old diabetic man with pulmonary tuberculosis developed a progressively enlarging bulla which occupied the whole left hemithorax and caused some shift of the mediastinum.

    • tuberculosis
    • bulla
    • lung

    https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.50.4.427

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