Lorenzo Villalba, Noel and Alonso Ortiz, Maria Belen and Cordoba Sosa, Zaida and Suárez Ortega, Saturnino and Zulfiqar, Abrar-Ahmad (2020) Tuberculosis as a Cause of Rapid Salivary Gland Swelling in the Elderly – A Case Report. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (3). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 77-year-old man was admitted to the internal medicine department for a 5-day history of progressive preauricular swelling. Two lines of antibiotic treatment failed to achieve any improvement. Fine needle aspiration cytology was conducted and smear staining with the Ziehl-Neelsen stain as well as a PCR test were positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These results were confirmed with culture of the sample. A diagnosis of tuberculosis parotitis was made and anti-tuberculous drugs were initiated.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Parotid tuberculosis, inflammatory swelling, Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2020 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2020 10:13 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19935 |
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