Interdisciplinary Approach to a Rare Occurrence of Nasal Tuberculosis-an Otolaryngology Case Report
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Tuberculosis is one of the most important infectious diseases. In 2009 estimate 9 million new cases were registered worldwide, mortality due tuberculosis reached 1.5 million (Markowski et al., 2011). Tuberculosis may infect any part of the body, but most commonly occurs in the lungs (known as pulmonary tuberculosis) (Dolin et al., 2010). Extra pulmonary TB occurs when tuberculosis develops outside of the lungs. Extra pulmonary TB may coexist with pulmonary TB as well (Dolin et al., 2010). The under diagnosis of extra pulmonary tuberculosis lesions, along with an emerging global resistance to antitubercular drugs, warrants an increased awareness of the involvement of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in atypical lesions (Yadav et al., 2012).
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