Tuberculosis of parotid gland masquerading parotid neoplasm

Parotid gland involvement in tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of middle aged male presenting with parotid swelling for 1 year and diagnosed to have parotid tuberculosis on fine needle aspiration cytology. A brief review of radiological findings in tuberculous parotitis is discussed which can...

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Autores principales: Vyas, Sameer, Kaur, Neeraj, Yadav, Thakur D., Gupta, Nalini, Khandelwal, Niranjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23833498
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.111381
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author Vyas, Sameer
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description Parotid gland involvement in tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of middle aged male presenting with parotid swelling for 1 year and diagnosed to have parotid tuberculosis on fine needle aspiration cytology. A brief review of radiological findings in tuberculous parotitis is discussed which can help in correct interpretation and timely diagnosis, and thus avoiding unnecessary parotidectomies.
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spelling pubmed-37001572013-07-05 Tuberculosis of parotid gland masquerading parotid neoplasm Vyas, Sameer Kaur, Neeraj Yadav, Thakur D. Gupta, Nalini Khandelwal, Niranjan Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Parotid gland involvement in tuberculosis is rare. We present a case of middle aged male presenting with parotid swelling for 1 year and diagnosed to have parotid tuberculosis on fine needle aspiration cytology. A brief review of radiological findings in tuberculous parotitis is discussed which can help in correct interpretation and timely diagnosis, and thus avoiding unnecessary parotidectomies. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3700157/ /pubmed/23833498 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.111381 Text en Copyright: © National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery 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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