title: [Parotid tuberculosis simulating neoplasia. Presentation of a case and review of literature].
abstract: A case ofparotid tuberculosis (PTB) that during its clinical presentation complementary proofs, exploration and realised treatment made suspect as first possibility a parotid tumor is presented. After an histologic study, it could be proved that the real problem of the patient was that she had suffered a parotid tuberculosis. An exposition of the case is made with the different technics that must be realised facing a patient of these caracteristics, before thinking in surgery, although secure, but with its mortal risks in these times where the incidence of tuberculosis is increasing in the first world.
authors.affiliation: Servicio ORL, Hospital Virgen De La Salud, Toledo.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Padilla Parrado
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Díaz Sastre
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aranzana Gómez
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Morales Puebla
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chacón Martínez
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Caro García
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jiménez Antolín
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Menéndez Loras
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010309:Parotitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed