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DOID:106 - pleural tuberculosis
Disease Ontology 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.
Synonyms: Pearly disease, Tuberculosis of pleura, Tuberculous pleurisy, Tuberculous pleuritis, tuberculous pleurisy in primary progressive tuberculosis,
Echinobase Genes
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Other Model Organisms: AGR, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD
Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s):
extrapulmonary tuberculosis (is_a)