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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

CA 125 and TB.

Mirae Park, Ranju Dhawan, Elizabeth Whittaker, Onn Min Kon

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mirae ParkImperial Clinical Respiratory Research Unit, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK m.park@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7015-5943
Ranju DhawanDepartment of Imaging and Radiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Elizabeth WhittakerPaediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Onn Min KonFaculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present two unusual presentations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and more specifically intra-abdominal tuberculosis (TB). These cases were initially suspicious for ovarian cancer, presenting with non-specific symptoms, ultrasound-confirmed ascites and elevated cancer antigen 125 tumour marker (CA 125). However, in both cases chest imaging demonstrated enlarged mediastinal nodes amenable to endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA), which confirmed the diagnosis of TB. Both cases were successfully treated with quadruple TB therapy.

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Abdominal PainAdolescentBiomarkersButtocksCA-125 AntigenFemaleHumansMiddle AgedTuberculosisBiomarkersCA-125 Antigenrespiratory medicinetuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID33462021
PMCPMC7816933

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