To the Editor: In spite of the many advances made in the control of tuberculosis, acute miliary tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis are by no means rare. During the two years 1960 and 1961 a ...

Based on: Tuberculosis and Acute General Miliary Tuberculosis. By Dr. G. Cornet, of Berlin. Edited with additions, by Walter B. James, M.D., Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the College of ...

Miliary tuberculosis (TB) is a rare condition that occurs when tuberculosis bacteria enter the bloodstream and spread to multiple parts of the body. Symptoms can vary from person to person.

Acute miliary tuberculosis – A rare form of cutaneous TB, acute miliary TB occurs in children and immune-compromised individuals. The characteristic symptoms are asthenia, fever, weight loss ...

In contrast to pulmonary tuberculosis, which is not a diagnostic challenge, disseminated disease without typical miliary pattern on plain chest x-ray or extrapulmonary tuberculosis without ...

This is called miliary TB, a disseminated form of tuberculosis. Miliary TB got its name in 1700 from John Jacob Manget based on how it appears on autopsy findings, after a patient had died.