Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus

A 7-year-old male presented with history of low-grade fever, epigastric pain and dysphagia. Ultrasound of abdomen and thorax revealed presence of paraesophageal lymphadenopathy. ‘Barium swallow’ and computerized tomography scan thorax with oral contrast suggested a provisional diagnosis of paraesoph...

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Autores principales: Rastogi, Anurag, Sarda, Dinesh, Kothari, Paras, Kulkarni, Bharati
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19727361
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33703
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author Rastogi, Anurag
Sarda, Dinesh
Kothari, Paras
Kulkarni, Bharati
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Sarda, Dinesh
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Kulkarni, Bharati
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description A 7-year-old male presented with history of low-grade fever, epigastric pain and dysphagia. Ultrasound of abdomen and thorax revealed presence of paraesophageal lymphadenopathy. ‘Barium swallow’ and computerized tomography scan thorax with oral contrast suggested a provisional diagnosis of paraesophageal diverticulum. Esophagoscopy was normal. Endoscopic ultrasonography with biopsy confirmed tuberculosis. The patient was started on four-drug antitubercular treatment.
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spelling pubmed-27320902009-09-02 Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus Rastogi, Anurag Sarda, Dinesh Kothari, Paras Kulkarni, Bharati Ann Thorac Med Case Report A 7-year-old male presented with history of low-grade fever, epigastric pain and dysphagia. Ultrasound of abdomen and thorax revealed presence of paraesophageal lymphadenopathy. ‘Barium swallow’ and computerized tomography scan thorax with oral contrast suggested a provisional diagnosis of paraesophageal diverticulum. Esophagoscopy was normal. Endoscopic ultrasonography with biopsy confirmed tuberculosis. The patient was started on four-drug antitubercular treatment. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2732090/ /pubmed/19727361 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33703 Text en © Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rastogi, Anurag
Sarda, Dinesh
Kothari, Paras
Kulkarni, Bharati
Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title_full Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title_fullStr Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title_short Mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
title_sort mediastinal tuberculosis presenting as traction diverticulum of the esophagus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19727361
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.33703
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