TY - JOUR A2 - Venkateshiah, Saiprakash B. AU - Aneja, Anshum AU - Krishnaswamy, Uma Maheswari AU - Thyagaraj, Vijayashree AU - Moideen, Riyaz P. AU - Satya Padmaja, Mantha PY - 2014 DA - 2014/08/18 TI - Endobronchial Tuberculosis: Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature SP - 283972 VL - 2014 AB - Endobronchial tuberculosis commonly affects young patients and presents as acute or insidious onset cough, wheeze, low grade fever, and constitutional symptoms. Although endobronchial lesions usually result in sputum positivity for acid fast bacilli (AFB), a false negative sputum or absence of radiological lesions may result in delayed diagnosis. On the other hand, sputum positivity with presence of signs on chest radiology may lead to consideration of parenchymal TB as the primary diagnosis and the coexistence of endobronchial lesions may be missed until sequelae of the latter ensue. Besides, in elderly patients, consideration of other differentials like malignancy and pneumonia may lead to misdiagnosis. Hence, bronchoscopy is essential for confirmation of endobronchial TB. We hereby report two cases of endobronchial TB which stress the importance of bronchoscopic diagnosis for timely institution of treatment and prevention of permanent sequelae, respectively. SN - 2090-6846 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/283972 DO - 10.1155/2014/283972 JF - Case Reports in Pulmonology PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -