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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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Autores principales: Mabrouki, Aboubakr, lachkar, Azzedine, Abdenbitsen, Adil, Elayoubi, Fahd
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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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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