Tuberculosis is still a public health problem today and can have acute chronic manifestations challenging clinics for various medical specialties. Because it’s disease of multisystem potential, it often overlooked when outside the respiratory clinical context. As result, case report was carried out at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre, in 2020, patient with voluminous gastrointestinal bleeding ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of new tuberculosis diagnostics on tuberculosis transmission given the complex contextual factors that can lead to patient loss before diagnosis or treatment. METHODS An epidemic model of tuberculosis specifying discrete steps along the tuberculosis diagnostic pathway was constructed. The model was calibrated to the epidemiology of tuberculosis and human immun...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis presenting as an isolated liver tumour, without active pulmonary or miliary tuberculosis, or other clinical evidence of tuberculosis, is distinctly rare. A greater awareness of this rare clinical entity may prevent needless surgical intervention. AIMS To help characterise this distinctly rare presentation of tuberculosis, five new cases are presented, together with a r...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis can disguise itself in any form. Endobronchial tuberculosis usually presents in young adults. Endobronchial tumor-like presentation of tuberculosis (EBTB) is very rare and often mistaken as a malignancy. Diagnosis is usually delayed, as clinical and radiological features are non-specific. Direct implantation of tubercle bacilli into the bronchus, or an contiguous spread,...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological aspects of childhood tuberculosis in kermanshah, iran. results: 35% of cases were male and 65% were female. of total 150 tuberculosis cases, 56% were pulmonary and 44% were extra pulmonary. the most common symptoms were fever and cough. about 16% were asymptomatic. about 17% of patients had adult pulmonary tuberculosis in the...

the common midline neck masses include thyroglossal duct cyst, lipomas, thyroid tumor or cyst and rarely a midline lymph node, particularly the node just above the thyroid isthmus. thyroid tuberculosis (ttb) is a rare cause of thyroid disease and therefore only occasionally included in the differential diagnosis. in this study we tried to explain the clinical and paraclinical manifestations of ...

Tubercular spondylitis is a common extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis. It accounts for 50% skeletal tuberculosis.[1] In most cases, associated symptoms are not so unique as to immediately indicate the proper diagnosis. Differentiating spinal tuberculosis from pyogenic osteomyelitis often very difficult, and metastatic lesion systemic malignancy other major entity which must be differe...

the musculoskeletal extrapulmonary tuberculosis is uncommon, the upper extremity tuberculosis is not common and the mycobacterial involvement of skin of hands and synovial sheath of tendons is rare. this prospective observational study was undertaken between august  2014 and december 2015 in a tertiary referral hospital. patients attending with suspected primary tuberculosis of soft tissue of t...

we report a rare case of base of tongue tuberculosis following pulmonary tuberculosis. patient presented to us with chief complaints of sore throat and pain on swallowing for period of 3 months. on examination with 70 degree telescope, we observed an ulcer on right side of base of tongue. the edges of the ulcer appeared to be undermined with whitish slough at the centre of the ulcer. examinatio...