Primary Tonsillar Tuberculosis: a Case Report

Overview

Journal J Laryngol Otol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Otorhinolaryngology

Date 1995 Sep 1

PMID 7494127

Citations 11

Authors

E Selimoglu

Y Sutbeyaz

M A Ciftcioglu

M Parlak

M Esrefoglu

A Ozturk

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Abstract

A 67-year-old man with an enlarged left tonsil underwent a tonsillectomy for the suspicion of malignancy. He had had a dental extraction six months earlier. Clinical and histopathological investigations established the diagnosis of primary tonsillar tuberculosis.

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