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Computer automated algorithm to evaluate cavitary lesions in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis

2017; AME Publishing Company; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21037/jtd.2017.01.35

2077-6624

Álvaro Proaño, Ziyue Xu, Philip Caligiuri, Daniel J. Mollura, Robert H. Gilman,

Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

The presence of a cavitary lesion is a radiographic hallmark of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). The sizes of the cavitary lesion and its proximity to the bronchial tree have been associated with mycobacterial burden (1).