Laryngeal involvement in a patient with active postprimary tuberculosis: Case report of a rare extrapulmonary manifestation

A 43-year-old woman was found to have active post-primary tuberculosis and a lateral neck radiograph showing a thickened epiglottis. Bronchoscopy-guided biopsies of the epiglottis and lung were acid fast bacilli stain positive. Histopathology from both showed multiple caseating granulomas. The patie...

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Autores principales: Shim, Brian, Songmen, Swachchhanda, Xenakis, Jason, Sapire, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.02.036
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description A 43-year-old woman was found to have active post-primary tuberculosis and a lateral neck radiograph showing a thickened epiglottis. Bronchoscopy-guided biopsies of the epiglottis and lung were acid fast bacilli stain positive. Histopathology from both showed multiple caseating granulomas. The patient’s condition improved with RIPE therapy. This case illustrates the importance for physicians to be aware of possible laryngeal involvement in tuberculosis and that it can present even without evidence of active or latent tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-79857062021-03-25 Laryngeal involvement in a patient with active postprimary tuberculosis: Case report of a rare extrapulmonary manifestation Shim, Brian Songmen, Swachchhanda Xenakis, Jason Sapire, Joshua Radiol Case Rep Case Report A 43-year-old woman was found to have active post-primary tuberculosis and a lateral neck radiograph showing a thickened epiglottis. Bronchoscopy-guided biopsies of the epiglottis and lung were acid fast bacilli stain positive. Histopathology from both showed multiple caseating granulomas. The patient’s condition improved with RIPE therapy. This case illustrates the importance for physicians to be aware of possible laryngeal involvement in tuberculosis and that it can present even without evidence of active or latent tuberculosis. Elsevier 2021-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7985706/ /pubmed/33777282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.02.036 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985706/
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