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TheScientificWorldJOURNAL
Volume 10 (2010), Pages 578-585
doi:10.1100/tsw.2010.52
A Case of Acute Tuberculous Pleuropneumonia in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Pediatric Clinic, University Clinical Centre, Nis, Serbia
Received 4 December 2009; Revised 3 March 2010; Accepted 3 March 2010
Academic Editor: Klaus Kayser
Copyright © 2010 Snezana Zivanovic et al.
Abstract
Respiratory system infections are the most common complications in immunocompromised cancer patients. We here report a 14-year-old male who was admitted to the hospital because of acute pneumonia, who had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) when he was 12 years old. A diagnosis of acute tuberculous pleuropneumonia was made based on clinical and radiographical findings, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified by Ziehl-Neelson acid-fast stain and culture on Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Twenty months before pneumonia onset, the patient had been treated with immunosupressive therapy (ALL IC-BFM 2002 protocol).