Parotid tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of the parotid gland is a rare condition. We describe a case of tuberculosis of right parotid gland in a 17-year-old male patient. Diagnosis was made by early suspicion and confirmed by demonstration of epitheloid granulomas on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Patient was success...

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Autores principales: Garg, Rajiv, Verma, Sanjay Kumar, Mehra, Sumit, Srivastawa, A N
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139728
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71969
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author Garg, Rajiv
Verma, Sanjay Kumar
Mehra, Sumit
Srivastawa, A N
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description Tuberculosis of the parotid gland is a rare condition. We describe a case of tuberculosis of right parotid gland in a 17-year-old male patient. Diagnosis was made by early suspicion and confirmed by demonstration of epitheloid granulomas on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Patient was successfully treated with daily regimen of four drugs (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol) for first two months followed by two drugs (rifampicin and isoniazid) for last four months.
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spelling pubmed-29881822010-12-07 Parotid tuberculosis Garg, Rajiv Verma, Sanjay Kumar Mehra, Sumit Srivastawa, A N Lung India Case Report Tuberculosis of the parotid gland is a rare condition. We describe a case of tuberculosis of right parotid gland in a 17-year-old male patient. Diagnosis was made by early suspicion and confirmed by demonstration of epitheloid granulomas on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Patient was successfully treated with daily regimen of four drugs (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol) for first two months followed by two drugs (rifampicin and isoniazid) for last four months. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2988182/ /pubmed/21139728 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71969 Text en © Lung India 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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Garg, Rajiv
Verma, Sanjay Kumar
Mehra, Sumit
Srivastawa, A N
Parotid tuberculosis
title Parotid tuberculosis
title_full Parotid tuberculosis
title_fullStr Parotid tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Parotid tuberculosis
title_short Parotid tuberculosis
title_sort parotid tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139728
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71969
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