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Outcomes of patients undergoing lung resection for drug-resistant TB and the prognostic significance of pre-operative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in predicting treatment failure

Background: Even with newer and repurposed anti-TB drugs almost a third of patients with XDR-TB have unfavourable outcomes. In patients with localised disease and adequate pulmonary reserve, surgery is an important adjunctive treatment. However, there are no outcome data from TB endemic countries, a...

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Main Author: Singh, Nevadna
Other Authors: Calligaro, Gregory L
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Medicine 2021
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