pleural tuberculosis

Summary
Synonym
  • Pearly disease
  • Tuberculosis of pleura
  • Tuberculous pleurisy
  • Tuberculous pleuritis
  • tuberculous pleurisy in primary progressive tuberculosis
Definition
An extrapulmonary tuberculosis that results_in lymphocyte-predominant exudative pleural effusion, located_in pleura. This results from an allergic response to tuberculoprotein causing the permeabiltity of the pleural vasculature to alter leading to a sub-pleural caseous focus rupture into the pleural sac.
Super Class
allergic disease extrapulmonary tuberculosis pleural disease
Disease Ontology
DOID:106
Mondo Disease Ontology
MeSH
UMLS
NCI Thesaurus
Related Genes
Displaying all 2 entries
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
3557 IL1RN interleukin 1 receptor antagonist
729230 CCR2 C-C motif chemokine receptor 2
Related Glycoprotein

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