Primary oropharyngeal tuberculosis causing destruction of uvula—A rare presentation |
| |
| Authors: | Soumya Ghatak Tamoghna Jana Samrat Bandyopadhyaya Samir Kumar Biswas |
| |
| Institution: | 1. Sleep Research Centre, Department of Neurology I.C., Oasi Institute for Research on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Troina, Italy;2. Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy;3. Sleep and Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital (EOC) of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland;4. Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy |
| |
| Abstract: | Despite the contact of pulmonary secretions and the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract with a high bacillary load, tuberculosis of the head and neck area, excluding laryngeal forms, is exceptional and constitutes only 2–6% of extra pulmonary tuberculosis and 0.1–1% of all forms of tuberculosis. Oral cavity tuberculosis is uncommon, out of which primary pharyngeal tuberculosis is extremely rare. We present a case of an ulcerative lesion in a 7-year-old female subsequently proven to be primary oropharyngeal tuberculosis. There was an erosion of uvula and posterior soft palate. There was also an ulcerated area on adjacent area of left tonsillar fossa with slough over posterior pharyngeal wall. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
