Tonsillar and lymph node tuberculosis revealing asymptomatic pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of Lymph Node Combined with Pulmonary Mucormycosis

Mucormycosis is a life‐threatening fungal infection which often occurs in patients with underlying disease, and often resulting in a fatal outcome due to the difficulty of early diagnosis and its resistance to antimycotics.[1] Tuberculosis (TB) of lymph node combined with pulmonary mucormycosis is rare. In this article, we reported a case of TB of mediastinal lymph node combined with pulmonary ...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Pulmonary Gunshot Wound Revealing Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a major flail of mankind, 1/3 of the world population is infected. In Morocco, the incidence is estimated by the Word Health Organization to 89 cases per 100 000 inhabitants. However, gunshot assaults are rare. Many circumstances of discovery of tuberculosis were described. We present the case of an incidental finding of pulmonary tuberculosis in a young patient victim...

BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...

Tuberculosis of the cystic duct lymph node.

Tuberculosis of the cystic duct lymph node associated with cholelithiasis is rare. We report a case of a 40 year-old woman with this pathology. She presented with anorexia, biliary colic, postprandial fullness and fever. Imaging studies revealed cholelithiasis and several visible portal lymph nodes. Cholecystectomy was performed and histopathological examination showed tuberculosis of the cysti...