ENT manifestations of tuberculosis: an important aspect of ENT practice.
Pan Afr Med J
; 36: 295, 2020.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33117489
ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis involving organs other than the lungs is termed as 'extra pulmonary tuberculosis'. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a worldwide public health problem despite the fact that the causative organism was discovered more than 100 years ago. The present study was conducted to assess different manifestations of tuberculosis affecting the ear, nose and throat (ENT) in patients attending the outpatient department in a total of 520 cases of tuberculosis. One hundred and eight cases were of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Sixty nine cases had the manifestations of TB in the ENT region. These included patients with tuberculous cervical lymphadenopathy (91.35), laryngeal TB (4.3%), tuberculous otitis media (1.4%), nasal TB (1.4%) and oral tuberculosis (1.4%). Extra pulmonary tuberculosis constitutes about 15-20% of all tuberculosis cases as per WHO survey and it is 20.6% in the present study.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
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Tuberculosis
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Pan Afr Med J
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
India