Tuberculoma of the nasopharynx.
When a patient of oriental extraction was seen with a mass in the nasopharynx, squamous cell carcinoma appeared to be the obvious diagnosis. Histologic examination, however, proved the mass to be a tuberculoma. This condition, which was not rare in the past, is almost always secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis. It responds to antituberculous medications.
D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications