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Slide 023 Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
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The photograph in the previous slide suggests that the patient had a collapsed lung. He actually developed a tension pneumothorax during treatment when the cavity apparently eroded the pleura. A tension pneumothorax in tuberculosis is rare, but not so rare is the silent collapse of a lung.

   
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