Case no. | Age | Gender | Respiratory symptoms | Extrapulmonary symptoms | Chest imaging | Sample collection method | Reporting year | Reference |
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1 | 34 | Male | Chest pain | Progressive weakening, anorexia, weight loss, and night sweats | Several bilateral, round, excavated opacities and subtracheal adenopathy | BAL | 2006 | [13] |
2 | 49 | Female | Dry cough | Disabling cervical pain, fever, and night sweats | Lung lobe parenchymal lesion | BAL and bronchial aspirate | 2015 | [14] |
3 | 30 | Male | Hemoptysis, chest pain, dyspnea | Fever and rash | a 3 cm, irregularly-shaped, well-defined consolidation and a 1 cm hilar node | CTNA | 2018 | [15] |
4 | 62 | Male | No respiratory symptoms | epigastric pain | Multiple nodular bibasilar subpleural nodules | TBB | 2018 | [16] |