Cavitary lung lesions in an immunosuppressed patient
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Cavitary lung lesions.
A 64-year-old man presented with unintentional weight loss of 22 kg in the preceding 9 months, cough, night sweating and low-grade fever. The lag time between onset of symptoms and first medical visit was explained by a long history of homelessness and intravenous drug abuse. Posteroanterior chest radiogram showed biapical large cavities (Fig. 1, arrows), as well as reticulo-nodular opacities, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.032