A Case of Laryngeal Tuberculosis Mimicking Lymphoma

The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis has steadily increased due to rising prevalence of HIV infection, immunosuppressive diseases and treatments, and the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms and atypical mycobacteria. We report on a woman with a unique presentation of laryngeal tuberculosis...

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Autores principales: De La Garza, Henriette, Flores, Rene, Grosu, Horiana B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842122
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13744
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description The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis has steadily increased due to rising prevalence of HIV infection, immunosuppressive diseases and treatments, and the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms and atypical mycobacteria. We report on a woman with a unique presentation of laryngeal tuberculosis mimicking lymphoma to remind clinicians that the diagnosis of laryngeal tuberculosis merits awareness and that delay in diagnosis poses a serious threat to the patient due to delayed treatment and further complications.
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spelling pubmed-80226782021-04-08 A Case of Laryngeal Tuberculosis Mimicking Lymphoma De La Garza, Henriette Flores, Rene Grosu, Horiana B Cureus Infectious Disease The incidence of laryngeal tuberculosis has steadily increased due to rising prevalence of HIV infection, immunosuppressive diseases and treatments, and the emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms and atypical mycobacteria. We report on a woman with a unique presentation of laryngeal tuberculosis mimicking lymphoma to remind clinicians that the diagnosis of laryngeal tuberculosis merits awareness and that delay in diagnosis poses a serious threat to the patient due to delayed treatment and further complications. Cureus 2021-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8022678/ /pubmed/33842122 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13744 Text en Copyright © 2021, De La Garza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_short A Case of Laryngeal Tuberculosis Mimicking Lymphoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842122
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13744
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