Abstract:Tuberculosis, despite all the research and technological inputs developed in recent years, remains one of the most frequent causes of pleural effusion, especially in developing countries such as Brazil. In immunocompetent individuals, pleural tuberculosis is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The diagnosis of this form of the disease continues to be the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pleural fluid, or in pleural biopsy samples, either by microscopy and / or culture, and the histol… Show more
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