BRONCHIOLOALVEOLAR CELL-CARCINOMA WITH APPARENT RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY TO ANTITUBERCULOSIS

Authors
ADOGU AA OZOH N EKWEANI N OBASI E
Citation
Aa. Adogu et al., BRONCHIOLOALVEOLAR CELL-CARCINOMA WITH APPARENT RESPONSE TO CHEMOTHERAPY TO ANTITUBERCULOSIS, East African medical journal, 70(2), 1993, pp. 123-124
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
East African medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0012835X
Volume
70
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
123 - 124
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-835X(1993)70:2<123:BCWART>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
This report describes a case of bronchiolo-alveolar cell carcinoma of the lungs presenting with severe respiratory distress and miliary shad owing on chest radiograms. The patient showed an apparent response to anti-tuberculous chemotherapy, which was probably related to the neuro psychiatric properties of isoniazid. The case illustrates that not all ''miliary'' chest radiograms in Africa are tuberculous and a chemothe rapeutic trial is not always diagnostic in individual cases of tubercu losis.