Diagnostic challenge of tuberculosis of the elderly in hospital: Experience at a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia

We studied retrospectively 80 elderly patients who had been admitted to hospital with tuberculosis (TB) between January 1988 and June 1993. There were 64 with pulmonary TB and 16 with miliary tuberculosis (MTB). The mean age was 70 ± 7.5 years (range 60–88 years) with 56% over 70 years of age. Under...

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