Frequency and predictors of miliary tuberculosis in patients with miliary pulmonary nodules in South Korea: A retrospective cohort study

Table 2 Etiologies of 76 patients with miliary nodules.

Tuberculosis	41 (54%)
Disseminated candidiasis	3 (4%)
Malignancy	20 (26%)
Lung cancer*	7
Breast cancer	5
Thyroid cancer	2
Others^†	6
Pneumocconiosis	6 (8%)
Sarcoidosis	4 (5%)
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis	2 (3%)

*Six of them had adenocarcinoma of non-bronchioloalveolar carcinoma histology and the other had bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.
^†Advanced gastric cancer (1 patient), prostate cancer (1 patient), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (1 patient), pancreas cancer (1 patient), parotid gland adenoid cystic carcinoma (1 patient), thymic carcinoma (1 patient)

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