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A patient with a 20-year history of tuberculous pleurisy developed significant pleural thickening and calcification presenting as a rare crescent-shaped shadow.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights the rare long-term complication of significant pleural thickening and calcification presenting as a crescent-shaped shadow decades after tuberculous pleurisy.
Rare pleural thickening and calcification in tuberculous pleurisy may reflect improved care; leaves open whether residual fibrosis affects outcomes in observational cohorts.
Tuberculous pleurisy, a type of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, is the pleural inflammation caused by hypersensitive response of the pleural cavity stimulated by mycobacterium tuberculosis and its metabolites. If the patient does not receive timely and effective treatment and intervention, a large amount of fibrin will be deposited which will cause pleural thickening, adhesions, and even calcification. At present, clinical cases of typical pleural thickening and calcification have been rarely reported. In this paper, we will report a case of significant pleural thickening and calcification caused by tuberculous pleurisy; moreover, the patient earliest got tuberculous pleurisy about in 20 years ago and had received anti-tuberculous treatment at that time. The patient's typical crescent-shaped shadow created by pleural thickening and calcification is very rare in the domestic and international literature.
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Zhu et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Tuberculous pleurisy (n=1). Tuberculous pleurisy was evaluated on Pleural thickening and calcification. A patient with a 20-year history of tuberculous pleurisy developed significant pleural thickening and calcification presenting as a rare crescent-shaped shadow.
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