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| Title |
Tuberculosis That Mimics Cancer: Cases Referred to the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima-Peru.
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| Published in |
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.17843/rpmesp.2018.351.3602 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Juliana R Villena-Suarez, William Vicente, Luis Taxa, Luis Cuéllar, Maria T Nuñez-Butrón, Valeria Villegas, Miluska Castillo, Carlos A Castañeda |
| Abstract |
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem that, due to the clinical variability of its presentation, can be confused with cancer. The aim of this study was to identify the clinical-radiological characteristics and to describe the methodology that allowed to achieve a TB diagnosis in patients referred to the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) with a presumed diagnosis of cancer between 2014 and 2016. The study included 170 patients (52.4% men) with an average age of 41.1 years; 18% presented a history of contact with TB, and 5.9% had had the disease previously. The TB was pulmonary in 22.4% and extrapulmonary in 77.7% of patients. The most frequent symptoms were respiratory, tumor, weight loss, and neurological. The cancer diagnoses most frequently discarded were lymphoma, lung cancer, and brain cancer. The lesions that suggested a neoplasm indicated an advanced clinical stage in 63.5%. Therefore, it follows that the symptoms and images associated with TB can be confused with malignant neoplasms. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 19% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 6% |
| Researcher | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 50% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 9 | 56% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2018.
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#17,292,294
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#166
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#9
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