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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:1076-1077
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Protopapas and Riga

Department of Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital of Nikea, Piraeus, Hellas, Greece

Received 3 March 2003; accepted 5 March 2003.

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Key Words: Pulmonary traumatic pseudocysts • Tuberculosis • Blunt thoracic trauma • Cavitating lesions

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We would like to thank Drs Protopapas and Riga for their comments on our article about traumatic pseudocysts. In our opinion, there is no possibility of confusing traumatic pseudocysts with tuberculous (TB) cavities. One should take the following points into account:

1. History of patients: it clears out the existence of tuberculosis. As you well know, there is no case where a patient has a TB . . . [Full Text of this Article]