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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep;101(3):475.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0200.

Sternal Tuberculosis

Juan Carlos Cataño  1 , Isabel Cristina Ramirez  2   1
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Case Reports

Sternal Tuberculosis

Juan Carlos Cataño et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Sep.
No abstract available

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Presternal chest wall mass. This figure appears in color at www.ajtmh.org.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Ziehl-Neelsen stain showing multiple acid-fast bacillae. This figure appears in color at www.ajtmh.org.
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