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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Chest radiograph appearances 63 years after ‘plombage’ performed for cavitating tuberculosis
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An 82-year-old woman had a recent routine chest radiograph when she presented with a tachycardia. This demonstrated the result of a surgical procedure performed for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1947. Examination revealed a large, left sided, vertical dorsal thoracotomy scar.
In the late 1940s, single agent chemotherapy with streptomycin could not guarantee a cure …
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