ReviewRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical2020
Non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease: a brief review focusing on radiological findings.
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- Pulmonary infection by non-tuberculous mycobacteria in an endemic region for tuberculosis in Northeast Brazil.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas · 2026Article
- Evaluation of treatment response with serial CT in patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease.European radiology · 2025Article
- Incidence of mycobacteria in pulmonary granulomatous lesions.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Observational
- Comparison of Computed Tomography Findings of Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Infections.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Showing the Development of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense Infection during Sirolimus Therapy.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- Chinese expert consensus on imaging diagnosis of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Review
- A Comparison of Clinical and Radiographic Signs of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease, Destructive Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis and a Combination of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Pulmonary Disease and Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Disseminated Mycobacterium genavense infection in a guinea pig (Cavia porcellus): a case report.BMC veterinary research · 2022Article
- Non-tuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease: A review of trends, risk factors, diagnosis and management.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2022Review
- Clinical characteristics of patients with bronchiectasis with nontuberculous mycobacterial disease in Mainland China: a single center cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Observational
- Encephalitis Due to Co-Infection with Cytomegalovirus and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in a Patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.The American journal of case reports · 2021Article
- Computed Tomography in Adults with Bronchiectasis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Typical Imaging Findings.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
The incidence and prevalence of lung disease caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM-LD) has increased worldwide and its diagnosis represents a complex challenge. This article aims to review the tomographic findings of NTM-LD in order to facilitate their definitive diagnosis. The search for publications on the subject was performed in PMC and Scielo using the keywords 'non-tuberculous mycobacteria', 'lung disease and computed tomography (CT)' and 'radiological findings'. The radiological findings described by 18 articles on mycobacteriosis were reviewed. In addition, CT images of patients diagnosed with NTM-LD were considered to represent radiological findings. Eighteen publications were used whose main findings were pulmonary cavitation (88.9%), bronchiectasis (77.8%), and pulmonary nodules (55.6%). Despite the overlaps in imaging-related analysis of myocobacterioses with other pulmonary infections, such as tuberculosis, the predominant involvement of the middle lobe and lingula should raise suspicion for NTM-LD.
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