History
The patient’s medical histories, including history and present history, are crucial for the Diagnosis of TBCP, especially for the patients with an obvious constriction symptom and unclear etiology. When the constriction is the first symptom, whether the patient is in an epidemiologically high-risk area of TB and/or HIV has a tremendous, supportive effect on the diagnosis. At the same time, we know that many factors/diseases can lead to CP, such as uremia, SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiac surgery, mediastinal radiotherapy, and viral infection, etc. These related factors/diseases are also helpful for differential diagnosis. Moreover, such clinical features like low fever, night-sweats, and weight-loss should be valued.