Tuberculosis masquerading as oral malignancy

Tuberculosis of the oral cavity is a rare condition. A 55-year-old labourer was referred as a case of oral cancer for further management. The patient had no systemic symptoms. Biopsy of the lesion revealed caseating granulomatous inflammation. Chest X-ray and sputum revealed evidence of asymptomatic...

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Autores principales: Kannan, S., Thakkar, Purvi, Dcruz, Anil K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.92830
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description Tuberculosis of the oral cavity is a rare condition. A 55-year-old labourer was referred as a case of oral cancer for further management. The patient had no systemic symptoms. Biopsy of the lesion revealed caseating granulomatous inflammation. Chest X-ray and sputum revealed evidence of asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis. The purpose of this paper is to sensitize clinicians to consider oral tuberculosis as a differential diagnosis in patients with an Non-healing oral cavity ulcer.
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spelling pubmed-33427312012-05-03 Tuberculosis masquerading as oral malignancy Kannan, S. Thakkar, Purvi Dcruz, Anil K. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Case Report Tuberculosis of the oral cavity is a rare condition. A 55-year-old labourer was referred as a case of oral cancer for further management. The patient had no systemic symptoms. Biopsy of the lesion revealed caseating granulomatous inflammation. Chest X-ray and sputum revealed evidence of asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis. The purpose of this paper is to sensitize clinicians to consider oral tuberculosis as a differential diagnosis in patients with an Non-healing oral cavity ulcer. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3342731/ /pubmed/22557791 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.92830 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 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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title_short Tuberculosis masquerading as oral malignancy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.92830
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