[Cervical tuberculosis -- scrofula].
We described a diagnostic procedure of two cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in elderly people. The paper presents the diagnostic difficulty caused by the lack of obtaining an adequate amount of material and low sensitivity and specificity of the conventional techniques. The probe Tec ET test was used with conventional microbiology and histology helps in diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis by improving specificity, sensitivity. Probe Tec ET test takes a few hours.
dział Otolaryngologiczny i Onkologii, Laryngologicznej, Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny w Olsztynie. annasiemieniuk@wp.pl
Anna
A
Siemieniuk
Bogdan
B
Kibiłda
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011044:Poland; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology
D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular