Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report

Hidradenitis is a chronic benign pathology with acute manifestations, mainly occurring among young patients with hyper seborrhea. Its clinical presentation is an inflammatory, nodular and fistulized aspect. It affects many body parts, making its location a referral criterion for diagnosis. Our patie...

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Autores principales: Basri, Zineb, Rita, Ait Benhammou, Lakhdari, Amine, Kharbouch, Maria, Tazi, Hamza, El Omari, Mounia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9816882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660084
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.98.33903
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author Basri, Zineb
Rita, Ait Benhammou
Lakhdari, Amine
Kharbouch, Maria
Tazi, Hamza
El Omari, Mounia
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description Hidradenitis is a chronic benign pathology with acute manifestations, mainly occurring among young patients with hyper seborrhea. Its clinical presentation is an inflammatory, nodular and fistulized aspect. It affects many body parts, making its location a referral criterion for diagnosis. Our patient had, indeed, a clinical aspect of hidradenitis. However, pathology revealed that it is tuberculosis lymphadenitis.
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spelling pubmed-98168822023-01-18 Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report Basri, Zineb Rita, Ait Benhammou Lakhdari, Amine Kharbouch, Maria Tazi, Hamza El Omari, Mounia Pan Afr Med J Case Report Hidradenitis is a chronic benign pathology with acute manifestations, mainly occurring among young patients with hyper seborrhea. Its clinical presentation is an inflammatory, nodular and fistulized aspect. It affects many body parts, making its location a referral criterion for diagnosis. Our patient had, indeed, a clinical aspect of hidradenitis. However, pathology revealed that it is tuberculosis lymphadenitis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9816882/ /pubmed/36660084 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.98.33903 Text en Copyright: Zineb Basri et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Basri, Zineb
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El Omari, Mounia
Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title_full Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title_fullStr Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title_short Lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
title_sort lymph node tuberculosis mimicking axillary hidradenitis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9816882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660084
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.98.33903
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