title: Primary tonsillar tuberculosis: a case report.
abstract: A 67-year-old man with an enlarged left tonsil underwent a tonsillectomy for the suspicion of malignancy. He had had a dental extraction six months earlier. Clinical and histopathological investigations established the diagnosis of primary tonsillar tuberculosis.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014066:Palatine Tonsil / Q000473:pathology*; D010608:Pharyngeal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014067:Tonsillar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014068:Tonsillectomy; D014393:Tuberculosis, Oral / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery