Patients underwent baseline investigations including complete blood counts, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, tuberculin skin test, chest radiography, and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination test.
Two more holistic approaches are used to assess developmental toxicity: (1) the chick embryotoxicity screening test (CHEST) [76] and (2) the fish embryo toxicity (FET) test [77, 78].
Group 1 patients underwent baseline uveitis investigations that included TST and/or QFT-TB Gold test, chest X-ray, hemogram, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
Antinuclear antibody, rheumatoid factor, C-reactive protein, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing, angiotensin-converting enzyme, pathergy test, skin tuberculin test, chest radiography, syphilis, toxoplasma, herpes, and lyme serology were done in selected patients.
Results of systemic examination by the internist, complete blood cell count, sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, syphilis serology, skin tuberculin test, chest X-ray, and oculo-cerebral magnetic resonance imaging were unremarkable.
Second, the tuberculin skin test, chest radiography, and CSF examinations were all normal.
These examinations include a general health questionnaire, voluntary HIV test, chest X-ray and TST.
Additional tests that can help in the diagnosis include lung diffusion capacity test, chest radiograph, and arterial blood gas test.
Before mastectomy all patients underwent staging investigations, including liver function test, chest radiography, ultrasound liver, skeletal survey and bone scan.
Skin test, chest x-ray, double pcr screening as well as cultures from sputum and ascites were negative.
