Introduction: Involvement of the salivary glands in tuberculosis is rare, even in countries where tuberculosis is endemic. It can occur by systemic dissemination from a distant focus or, less commonly, as primary involvement. This article focuses on its myriad clinical presentations that pose a diagnostic challenge to the clinician. We discuss the schema of investigations required to confirm t...

Background: Tuberculosis of the larynx is a rare form of tuberculosis. Patients usually present with hoarseness or dysphagia and other nonspecific constitutional symptoms like fever or localized pain. In this study, we present a case of primary vocal cord lesion with tuberculosis. Case presentation: A 72 year old man presented with hoarseness of voice, low grade fever, and night sweating with i...

although tuberculosis involves every organ and has a wide range of clinical manifestation, however involvement of the thyroid gland is rare. we report a case of a 25-yr-old female with supraclavicular lymphadenitis that developed nodular swelling of the thyroid and had symptoms and sonographic features mimicking a nodule with a cystic component. the diagnosis was made by using fine needle aspir...

a 25-year-old female presented to the infertility opd with complaints of secondary infertility and pain lower abdomen with watery discharge for the past five days. she had history of undergoing hysterosalpingography in a private hospital ten days back. the interventions included drainage of pyometra, endometrial biopsy for routine and afb smear/ culture,  confirmation of diagnosis by m rna-base...

Background: Microscopic smear examination is the most common test in tuberculosis (TB) detection. It is, however, not strong enough to identify TB in the majority of afflicted individuals; thus, a significant number of TB patients are smear negative and capable of transmitting the infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of smear-negative TB in northwest Iran.Methods: In this c...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The group of bacteria in addition to tuberculosis that can cause disorders airways known as MOTT (Mycobacterium Other Than Tuberculosis), which sometimes interfere with enforcement TB diagnosis and treatment. (TB) a high burden for Indonesia, not only because itself, but also its resistant several first-line dr...

In India, pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 85% of cases and extrapulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 15% of cases with bone and joint involvement is seen in 1 to 3% of cases. Primary tuberculous osteomyelitis of the sternum is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A 51-year-old male presented with 10 years history of swelling over the anterior chest wall and pain for past 6 months. Fin...