title: Primary Nasal Tuberculosis in a 10-Year-Old Girl.
abstract: Nasal tuberculosis is a rare clinical entity which mainly presents in elderly people. Nasal tuberculosis has always been considered to be secondary to tuberculosis of the lungs, and in rare instances it is a primary infection, usually when mycobacteria are inhaled. We describe the case of a 10-year-old girl who was successfully treated for primary nasal tuberculosis. This patient is one of the very few children who have been reported to have primary nasal tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Özer
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yasemin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Özsurekçi
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali Bülent
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Cengiz
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Uğur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Özçelik
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ebru
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yalçın
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 6100 Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Özay
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Gököz