Tuberculoma of the nasopharynx.
A 67-year-old female patient with tuberculosis of the nasopharynx is reported. The diagnosis was confirmed on histological and bacteriological examination of a biopsy from her postnasal space. There was no evidence of any other active foci of tuberculosis but she had had a right nephrectomy 45 years previously for renal tuberculosis. A review of the literature on nasopharyngeal tuberculosis shows this to be a very rare disease in the absence of active pulmonary involvement.
Sanderson
R J
RJ
Otolaryngology Unit, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, U.K.
Sim
D W
DW
Meehan
C J
CJ
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009302:Nasopharyngeal Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*