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Tuberculous pulmonary pneumatocele communicating extrathoracically
  1. D D Duttaroy1,
  2. J Jagtap1,
  3. U Bansal1,
  4. B Duttaroy2
  1. 1Department of Surgery, Government Medical College and Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat, India
  2. 2Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College and Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat, India
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr D D Duttaroy
    Department of Surgery, Government Medical College and Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat, India 390001; drduttaroy{at}gmail.com

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A 40 year old man presented with swelling over his right upper chest for the previous 8 months. He had also had low grade fever, cough with mucoid expectoration, weight loss, and breathlessness on exertion for 2 months. The swelling initially appeared in the right infraclavicular region and gradually increased in size. The swelling could be decreased in size on application of local pressure, but it regained its original size when the pressure was released. He had been treated elsewhere for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) 3 …

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