Miliary tuberculosis

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• Synonyms

  • Miliary TB

• Causes

  • Tuberculosis

• Effects

  • Hepatomegaly
  • Choroidal tubercles
  • Miliary shadowing of lung
  • Splenic response to infection
  • Diffuse pulmonary infection
  • Tuberculous osteomyelitis
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Pancytopaenia
  • Bazin disease
  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  • Pericarditis
  • Panhypopituitarism
  • Urinary tract tuberculosis
  • Lupus vulgaris
  • Bacterial lymphocytic meningitis
  • Protein-losing enteropathy
  • Ascitic lymphocytosis
  • Liver granuloma
  • Ascites

• Description

  • "acute diffuse dissemination in the bloodstream universally fatal without treatment"