The pathological changes of caseation and tubercle formation in tuberculosis of the pleura have been extensively studied at autopsy, 6,7 but observations of the diseased pleura during life were ...

Rapid bacillus multiplication, progressive liquefied caseation necrosis and tissue destruction lead to such an abscess. Neovascularization may develop in large-sized granulomas. High-resolution ...

Computed tomography-guided pleural biopsy demonstrated epithelioid cell granulomas with caseation. Tuberculous pleurisy was diagnosed and quadruple therapy for tuberculosis was initiated ...

Diagnosis of IBD poses two major problems. One is the lack of a gold standard, represented by histological or serological confirmation; the second is the number of conditions that mimic IBD and ...