Primary Oropharyngeal Tuberculosis—A Differential Diagnosis to Malignancy

The diagnosis of oropharyngeal gonorrhoea.

Epidemiology There is general agreement that oropharyngeal infection occurs most frequently in homosexual men, followed by women and heterosexual men. The table gives comparative prevalences from four studies of patients with gonorrhoea. Weisner et al4 found the oropharyngeal isolation rate of neisseria species from his population was: N meningitidis 17.2%; N gonorrhoeae 5.6% and N lactamica 1 ...

The growing epidemic of HPV associated oropharyngeal malignancy.

Against the prevailing view during the 1970s, Harald zur Hausen postulated a role for human papilloma virus (HPV) in cervical cancer and subsequently won a nobel prize for his work in 2008 1 . The pathway by which the viral oncogene causes malignant transformation in the cervix has been well described in the literature. What is far less appreciated is the association between HPV and oropharynge...

Primary immunodeficiency diseases and malignancy.

The incidence of malignant tumors in the primary immunodeficiency diseases is dramatically increased. Four patients with primary immunodeficiencies who developed fatal malignancies are reported. Lymphoreticular tumors and leukemia predominate in most conditions, but epithelial neoplasms are the most common tumors in selective Iga deficiency, and they comprise over one-fourth of malignancies in ...

Primary Pancreatic Lymphoma - CT Imaging Features and Differential Diagnosis

The Differential Diagnosis of Primary Iritis in the Early Stages

Primary iritis is an inflammation which begins in tlxe iris itself, and is not the result of some other morbid process in the eye. Except, perhaps, in the traumatic variety, the condition is caused by a blood-borne infection. An eye so attacked manifests certain cardinal signs and symptoms which must be carefully looked for and their significance appreciated. A. Circumcorneal injection.?In the ...