Secondary pharyngeal tuberculosis

Laryngo - pharyngeal Tuberculosis Summary

Pharyngeal Varices Secondary to Sinistral Portal Hypertension

A 60-year-old man presented with hematemesis. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic tail cancer and gastric varices due to sinistral portal hypertension, which had been observed on computed tomography (CT). An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was undertaken to assess the gastric varices, and a recent gastric variceal bleed was suggested (Figure 1). Although splenectomy was a definitive therapy,...

Primary and Secondary Tuberculosis

Enterolithiasis secondary to intestinal tuberculosis.

[Osteoarticular tuberculosis with destructive wrist arthritis secondary to extrapulmonary tuberculosis].

A case is presented of a 69 year old male patient with a history of wrist fracture from over 50 years ago with pain refractory to analgesics and with joint destruction of the wrist in conventional radiology. We have conducted a review of extrapulmonary tuberculous osteoarthritis discussing the diagnosis and treatment of this unusual presentation of the disease.