%0 Journal Article
%T Malignant metastatic deposits in an immunocompromised patient¡ªcould this be tuberculosis?
%A B Bovill
%A C Kendall
%A R Aros-Atolagbe
%A R Ravanan
%A Y Ng
%J Archive of "Oxford Medical Case Reports".
%D 2017
%R 10.1093/omcr/omx007
%X We report the case of a 50-year-old female renal transplant patient who developed disseminated deposits initially diagnosed as metastatic malignancy of unknown primary. She declined a tissue diagnosis but subsequently developed recurrent sepsis and symptomatic unilateral pleural effusion. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from pleural fluid. Following introduction of anti-tuberculous medications, her symptoms improved rapidly and the progression of her disseminated deposits stabilized. Tuberculosis is well-known to be associated with immunocompromised patients. It is a curable disease and should remain an important differential diagnosis for transplant patients who develop suspicious malignant metastatic lesions
%K Infectious Diseases
%K Tropical Medicine
%K Nephrology
%K Oncology
%K Palliative Medicine
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534023/