Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Is the seed sown?

20 year old female patient with cough ,fever, weight loss - 1 month.
What is the radiological pattern? What is the most likely diagnosis ?
Answer - This is 'tree in bud' pattern - It suggests endobroncial spread of disease process.Most likely diagnosis -tuberculosis.
(Incidentally this is confirmed tuberculosis with BAL PCR positive and AFB culture from BAL sample growing M.tuberculosis)

No comments:

Post a Comment