OBJECTIVES: Clinical and radiological study of pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetic patients. METHODS: 100 cases of diabetes mellitus with pulmonary tuberculosis were studied.Their clinical profile and chest radiograph results were analyzed. RESULTS: The predominant clinical symptoms noted were anorexia (80%), cough (73%), fever (56%). 62.5% of male patients were smokers.Clubbing was noted in 10%...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary ossification has been rarely observed in pulmonary fibrosis and in some chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We report here a metaplastic ossification in the bronchial cartilage of a patient with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 41-year-old Asian man from Korea with chronic multi-drug res...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE It has been reported that tobacco smoking slows the sterilisation of sputum culture in pulmonary tuberculosis, but the factors that could delay culture conversion in patients who smoke are not known. Our aim is to identify the factors influencing sputum culture conversion in smokers with pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS Ninety-nine patients with a smoking history and d...

PURPOSE To present a computer-aided detection tool for identifying, quantifying, and evaluating tuberculosis (TB) cavities in the infected lungs from computed tomography (CT) scans. METHODS The authors' proposed method is based on a novel shape-based automated detection algorithm on CT scans followed by a fuzzy connectedness (FC) delineation procedure. In order to assess interaction between c...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients in whom tuberculosis was not suspected before admission but was diagnosed after admission. METHODS We enrolled 39 inpatients who were diagnosed with tuberculosis between April 2007 and March 2011 at Jichi Medical University Hospital. The patients were divided into 2 groups as follows: those who underwent a preadmission acid-fast bac...