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ENT manifestations of tuberculosis: an important aspect of ENT practice
- Source :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 36, Iss 295 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020.
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Abstract
- Tuberculosis involving organs other than the lungs is termed as ´extra pulmonary tuberculosis´. Tuberculosis 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 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.
- Subjects :
- extra-pulmonary
lymphadenitis
oral tb
Medicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English, French
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 295
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- The Pan African Medical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.6b5a3b8b0fe4210ac3da4869f577234
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.295.24823