The risk factors for contracting miliary tuberculosis are being in direct contact with a person who has it, living in unsanitary conditions, and having an unhealthy diet.
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Typically these will heal, but in some cases, especially in immunosuppressed patients, it will progress to miliary tuberculosis ( so named due to the granulomas resembling millet seeds on a chest X-ray ).
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With Austrian pathologist Franz Dittrich ( 1815-1859 ), the " Buhl-Dittrich law " is obtained, a supposition that states that " In every case of acute miliary tuberculosis, there exists at least one old focus of causation in the body ".
