Oesophageal tuberculosis mimicking a tumour during treatment for nodal tuberculosis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A patient with cervical lymph node tuberculosis developed a tubercular ulcer in the oesophagus eight weeks after starting treatment. This was probably due to a drug related hypersensitivity reaction in an adjacent mediastinal lymph node and subsided with continued treatment.
Medical subject headings
- Esophageal Diseases
- Esophageal Neoplasms
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Lymph Node