A rare case report of primary tuberculosis of tongue
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Date
2016
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Educational Society for Excellence
Abstract
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has displayed increasing incidence in the last decades. In the ENT area, the most common onset is cervical lymphadenitis, which accounts for 95% of ENT cases. The posterior pharyngeal wall, tonsillar pillars, sidewalls, soft palate, and tongue are the least probable locations. A 40 year old male presented in the ENT OPD with a growth at base of tongue, involving the lateral sulcus, anterior tonsillar pillar and lower pole of tonsil left side. A biopsy was taken from the same area and sent for histopathological examination with a strong clinical suspicion of squamous cell carcinoma. The final histopathological diagnosis was tuberculosis of tongue. The patient showed good response on ATT.
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Tuberculosis tongue, Tuberculosis oral cavity, Primary tuberculosis tongue, Primary tuberculosis oral
Citation
Sharma MK, Joshi N, Yadav ML, Agarwal T. A rare case report of primary tuberculosis of tongue. International Archives of Integrated Medicine. 2016 Mar; 3(3): 177-180