Top

Published in:

Open Access 01-12-2014 | Case report

A rare case of tuberculosis with motor neuron disease

Authors: Jie Ren, Cheng Shen, Guowei Che

Published in: World Journal of Surgical Oncology | Issue 1/2014

Abstract

Motor neuron disease (MND) is occasionally aggravated by chronic infection. A misdiagnosed case of tuberculosis with MND is illustrated in a 45-year-old woman who underwent successful VATS wedge excision, which is presented herein. MND in an adult is a rare clinical entity. In order to facilitate the preoperative diagnosis and avoid the misdiagnosis of this disease, more etiological factors need to be considered.

Available only for authorised users

Bakheet SM, Powe J, Ezzat A: Rostom A.F-18-FDG Uptake in Tuberculosis. Clin Nucl Med. 1998, 23: 739-742. 10.1097/00003072-199811000-00003.CrossRefPubMed

Lee JW, Kim BS, Lee DS, Chung JK, Lee MC, Kim S: Kang WJ.18 F-FDG PET/CT in mediastinal lymph node staging of non-small-cell lung cancer in a tuberculosis endemic country:consideration of lymph node calcification and distribution pattern to improve specificity. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2009, 36: 1794-1802. 10.1007/s00259-009-1155-4.CrossRefPubMed

Briggs SEW, Gozzard P, Talbot DC: The association between Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome and small cell lung carcinoma. Immuno Targets Ther. 2013, 2: 31-37.

Dai Y, Li P, Yan S, Xia X, Li Z, Xia M: Lung squamous carcinoma with two paraneoplastic syndromes -Dermatomyositis and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome. Clin Respir J. 2014, doi:10.1111/crj.12229

Koriyama H, Kyoraku I, Yamashita S, Shiomi K, Matsumoto N, Nakazato M: Synchronous appearance and improvement with anticancer chemotherapy of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome complicated with small cell lung cancer. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2013, 53: 104-108. 10.5692/clinicalneurol.53.104.CrossRefPubMed

Nam TS, Park MS, Choi KH, Jung HJ, Yoon GJ, Choi SM, Kim BC, Kim MK, Cho KH: Myasthenia Gravis Aggravated by Steroid-Induced Isolated Mediastinal Tuberculous Lymphadenitis. Clin Neurol. 2010, 6: 224-226. 10.3988/jcn.2010.6.4.224.CrossRef

Ou SM, Liu CJ, Chang YS, Hu YW, Chao PW, Chen TJ, Tzeng CH, Wang SJ: Tuberculosis in myasthenia gravis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2013, 17: 79-84. 10.5588/ijtld.12.0260.CrossRefPubMed

Achsel T, Barabino S, Cozzolino M, Carrì MT: The intriguing case of motor neuron disease: ALS and SMA come closer. Biochem Soc Trans. 2013, 41: 1593-1597.CrossRefPubMed

Title: A rare case of tuberculosis with motor neuron disease
Authors: Jie Ren
Cheng Shen
Guowei Che
Publication date: 01-12-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: World Journal of Surgical Oncology / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1477-7819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-381

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

A rare case of tuberculosis with motor neuron disease

Abstract

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 1/2014

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the jaws: report of cases

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Clinico-histopathologic and outcome features of cutaneous infundibular keratinizing acanthoma: a case report and literature review

RAB8A a new biomarker for endometrial cancer?

Lower skeletal muscle index and early complications in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer

Testicular yolk sac tumors in children: a review of 61 patients over 19 years

Risk factors for venous port migration in a single institute in Taiwan