Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a Young Healthy Woman

A 20-year-old woman with no history of pulmonary disease had no symptom and her chest CT scans demonstrated adhesive small multiple nodules in the bronchial lung biopsy specimen showed epithelioid cell granuloma containing Langhans giant cells, therefore she was diagnosed as pulmonary mycobacteriosi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Internal Medicine 2006, Vol.45(15), pp.913-916
Hauptverfasser: Inomata, Shin-ichiro, Tanaka, Hiroshi, Nakajima, Kazutaka, Nakamura, Naoto, Omote, Takiko, Nigawara, Eiji, Takahashi, Mamoru, Chiba, Hirohumi, Takahashi, Hiroki
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Zusammenfassung:A 20-year-old woman with no history of pulmonary disease had no symptom and her chest CT scans demonstrated adhesive small multiple nodules in the bronchial lung biopsy specimen showed epithelioid cell granuloma containing Langhans giant cells, therefore she was diagnosed as pulmonary mycobacteriosis caused by M. szulgai. This is the youngest case of this rare condition occurring in a healthy subject without underlying pulmonary diseases.
ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1744