Case Report: Acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis

The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis (TB), which had dropped dramatically after the institution of modern anti-TB chemotherapy, has shown recent reemergence. It is important to be aware of its possibility, especially as it can present with nonspecific upper airway symptoms and a frequent lack of...

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Autores principales: El Beltagi, Ahmed H, Khera, Pushpinder S, Alrabiah, Lamya, Al Shammari, Noufa F J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Head and Neck Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22223941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.90690
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author El Beltagi, Ahmed H
Khera, Pushpinder S
Alrabiah, Lamya
Al Shammari, Noufa F J
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description The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis (TB), which had dropped dramatically after the institution of modern anti-TB chemotherapy, has shown recent reemergence. It is important to be aware of its possibility, especially as it can present with nonspecific upper airway symptoms and a frequent lack of constitutional manifestations. We report such a case presenting as acute epiglottitis, with diffuse involvement of the supraglottic larynx associated with reactivation lung TB.
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spelling pubmed-32499442012-01-05 Case Report: Acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis El Beltagi, Ahmed H Khera, Pushpinder S Alrabiah, Lamya Al Shammari, Noufa F J Indian J Radiol Imaging Head and Neck Radiology The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis (TB), which had dropped dramatically after the institution of modern anti-TB chemotherapy, has shown recent reemergence. It is important to be aware of its possibility, especially as it can present with nonspecific upper airway symptoms and a frequent lack of constitutional manifestations. We report such a case presenting as acute epiglottitis, with diffuse involvement of the supraglottic larynx associated with reactivation lung TB. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3249944/ /pubmed/22223941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.90690 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case Report: Acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis
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title_full_unstemmed Case Report: Acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis
title_short Case Report: Acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis
title_sort case report: acute tuberculous laryngitis presenting as acute epiglottitis
topic Head and Neck Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249944/
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