Black lungs and tuberculosis
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Black lungs and tuberculosis
A never-smoking 82-year-old woman with a past medical history of type-2 diabetes presented to the outpatient clinic with a 3– 4 months history of purulent bronchitis, haemoptysis, weight loss and fevers. She had lived in a small village in India and Pakistan all her life and had been visiting the UK intermittently until setting up permanent residency a few months ago. She denied any history of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Breathe
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1810-6838,2073-4735
DOI: 10.1183/20734735.018311