Resumen

ALVAREZ HERRERA, Tamara  y  PLACERES HERNANDEZ, José Fernando. Pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus. Presentation of two cases. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.3, pp. 417-423. ISSN 1684-1824.

From the antiquity, physicians have been conscious of the association between tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus. In the presented cases the co-morbidity of diabetes mellitus and pulmonary tuberculosis is present. The clinical characteristics and the results of the complementary exams were exposed, coinciding the evolution time and being different the metabolic control and the radiological characteristics in each case.

Palabras clave : pulmonary tuberculosis; diabetes mellitus; co-morbidity.

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