1. Usefulness of serum lysozyme measurement in diagnosis of intrathoracic lymphadenopathy.
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Lodha SC and Mir MA
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- Africa, Eastern ethnology, Bronchial Neoplasms diagnosis, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Humans, India ethnology, Lymphatic Diseases enzymology, Lymphoma diagnosis, Male, Sarcoidosis diagnosis, Thoracic Neoplasms diagnosis, Tuberculosis, Lymph Node diagnosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary diagnosis, Wales, Clinical Enzyme Tests, Lymphatic Diseases diagnosis, Muramidase blood
- Abstract
We studied the value of serum lysozyme as a helpful test in distinguising tuberculous involvement of intrathoracic glands from lymphoma. Nineteen of the 28 patients (all Asian immigrants) with intrathoracic glandular tuberculosis had raised serum lysozyme level as compared with 2 of the 29 patients with lymphoma. While a normal serum lysozyme level is unhelpful, a raised level in an Asian immigrant with hilar or mediastinal lymphadenopathy makes tuberculosis a highly probable diagnosis.
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- 1980
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