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 rare ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For 70 years, clinicians thought they knew the shape of tuberculosis granulomas in the lungs of patients. Histology — the study of microscopic structures in thin slices of lung ...

Although the clinical history and images of tuberculosis with Pott's disease presented by Weber and Scherübl (Dec. 5 issue) 1 were instructive, I believe their reference to the Langerhans' cell was ...

One of the main challenges for tuberculosis (TB) therapy is how to deliver drugs to the site of disease. Once the body’s immune system is infected with tuberculosis, it forms granulomas—tight clusters ...

Highlights the resurgence of tuberculosis in the head and neck region, in particular the extrapulmonary type. Presents an extremely unusual nodular presentation of oral tuberculosis that usually ...

MicroCT of infected human lung tissue, along with histology and immunohistochemistry, was used to construct images of TB granulomas, airways and vasculature. For 70 years, clinicians thought they knew ...