Atypical isolated epiglottic tuberculosis: a case report and a review of the literature.
Tuberculosis is a systemic disease and its occurrence in the larynx and in the oral cavity is well-documented in the literature. Tuberculosis of the larynx involves mainly the vocal folds and the ventricular band and is associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in 80% of cases. Isolated epiglottic tuberculosis has rarely been described, and it is always associated with pulmonary lesions. The authors report a case of isolated epiglottic tuberculosis in a 72-year-old woman that presented as a laryngeal carcinoma and discuss the diagnostic problems related to its atypical clinical, endoscopic, and radiologic presentation.
Galli
Jacopo
J
Institute of Otolaryngology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. iclot@rm.unicatt
Nardi
Cristiano
C
Contucci
Alessia M
AM
Cadoni
Gabriella
G
Lauriola
Libero
L
Fantoni
M
M
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004825:Epiglottis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis*