Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis

PURPOSE: To report an unusual presentation of tuberculosis. CASE REPORT: A six-year old boy presented with left upper lid swelling of 15 days’ duration and an asymptomatic midline neck mass from 2 months ago. Imaging studies, and microbiologic tests which demonstrated acid-fast bacilli in the fine n...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Kumudini, Kanaujia, Vikas, Jain, Anu, Bains, Sukhdeep, Suman, Suvarna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ophthalmic Research Center 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22454737
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author Sharma, Kumudini
Kanaujia, Vikas
Jain, Anu
Bains, Sukhdeep
Suman, Suvarna
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description PURPOSE: To report an unusual presentation of tuberculosis. CASE REPORT: A six-year old boy presented with left upper lid swelling of 15 days’ duration and an asymptomatic midline neck mass from 2 months ago. Imaging studies, and microbiologic tests which demonstrated acid-fast bacilli in the fine needle aspirate of the thyroid mass, both confirmed a diagnosis of cold tuberculous thyroid abscess with presumed hematogenous spread to the orbit. The patient demonstrated marked improvement of both lesions with antitubercular drugs. CONCLUSION: This case illustrates a very rare association of orbital and thyroid tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-33061062012-03-27 Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis Sharma, Kumudini Kanaujia, Vikas Jain, Anu Bains, Sukhdeep Suman, Suvarna J Ophthalmic Vis Res Case Report PURPOSE: To report an unusual presentation of tuberculosis. CASE REPORT: A six-year old boy presented with left upper lid swelling of 15 days’ duration and an asymptomatic midline neck mass from 2 months ago. Imaging studies, and microbiologic tests which demonstrated acid-fast bacilli in the fine needle aspirate of the thyroid mass, both confirmed a diagnosis of cold tuberculous thyroid abscess with presumed hematogenous spread to the orbit. The patient demonstrated marked improvement of both lesions with antitubercular drugs. CONCLUSION: This case illustrates a very rare association of orbital and thyroid tuberculosis. Ophthalmic Research Center 2011-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3306106/ /pubmed/22454737 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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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Jain, Anu
Bains, Sukhdeep
Suman, Suvarna
Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis
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title_full Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis
title_fullStr Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis
title_short Tuberculous Orbital Abscess Associated with Thyroid Tuberculosis
title_sort tuberculous orbital abscess associated with thyroid tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22454737
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