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A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death by an infectious disease worldwide. We describe here a rare case of tuberculosis that presented as a giant nodule of t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36579274 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31891 |
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author | Mabrouki, Aboubakr lachkar, Azzedine Abdenbitsen, Adil Elayoubi, Fahd |
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description | Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death by an infectious disease worldwide. We describe here a rare case of tuberculosis that presented as a giant nodule of the soft palate mimicking a tumor. A 50-year-old man was admitted to the oral and facial surgery department for odynophagia and nocturnal snoring. The clinical examination of the oral cavity revealed a mass on the right side of the soft palate, pushing back the uvula on the left, measuring 3 cm in length, nodular in appearance, hard to palpate, and painless with no inflammatory sign of the mucosa opposite. A contrast-injected cervicofacial scan and magnetic resonance imaging were requested that showed a heterogeneous mass on the right side of the soft palate. The therapeutic decision was to perform a biopsy under general anaesthesia, with a histopathological study of the mass. Intraoperatively, the mass was detachable and completely removable. The definite histopathological examination of the surgical specimen was in favour of tuberculosis of the soft palate. |
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spelling | pubmed-97901822022-12-27 A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis Mabrouki, Aboubakr lachkar, Azzedine Abdenbitsen, Adil Elayoubi, Fahd Cureus Otolaryngology Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death by an infectious disease worldwide. We describe here a rare case of tuberculosis that presented as a giant nodule of the soft palate mimicking a tumor. A 50-year-old man was admitted to the oral and facial surgery department for odynophagia and nocturnal snoring. The clinical examination of the oral cavity revealed a mass on the right side of the soft palate, pushing back the uvula on the left, measuring 3 cm in length, nodular in appearance, hard to palpate, and painless with no inflammatory sign of the mucosa opposite. A contrast-injected cervicofacial scan and magnetic resonance imaging were requested that showed a heterogeneous mass on the right side of the soft palate. The therapeutic decision was to perform a biopsy under general anaesthesia, with a histopathological study of the mass. Intraoperatively, the mass was detachable and completely removable. The definite histopathological examination of the surgical specimen was in favour of tuberculosis of the soft palate. Cureus 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9790182/ /pubmed/36579274 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31891 Text en Copyright © 2022, Mabrouki et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Otolaryngology Mabrouki, Aboubakr lachkar, Azzedine Abdenbitsen, Adil Elayoubi, Fahd A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title | A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title_full | A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title_fullStr | A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title_full_unstemmed | A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title_short | A Giant Nodule of the Soft Palate Mimicking a Tumor: A Case of Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis |
title_sort | giant nodule of the soft palate mimicking a tumor: a case of oropharyngeal tuberculosis |
topic | Otolaryngology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36579274 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31891 |
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