1/6. tuberculosis of the parotid salivary gland.An interesting and rare case of tuberculosis involving a parotid gland is discussed. Although pulmonary tuberculosis is not uncommon in turkey, primary parotid gland involvement is rare. The patient was treated by parotidectomy and antituberculous chemotherapy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/6. Primary parotid tuberculosis: varied clinical presentations.parotid gland tuberculosis is rare and may present in different clinical forms. We present three cases of tuberculosis of the parotid gland that presented to us with different clinico-pathological appearances. The cases were diagnosed on the basis of histopathological evaluation and fine needle aspiration cytology. All the patients responded to four-drug antitubercular chemotherapy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.33333333333333keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/6. Submandibular tuberculous lymphadenitis after endodontic treatment of the mandibular first premolar tooth: report of a case.Cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis (scrofula) is an infectious granulomatous disease that requires a precise diagnosis. The differential diagnosis involves mainly the pathologic conditions involving the regional lymph nodes and the submandibulary salivary glands. Although tuberculous lesions generally develop secondary to pulmonary disease, clinical manifestations are occasionally seen with no evidence of involvement of the lungs. In this report, a case of tuberculous submandibular lymphadenitis developing after endodontic treatment of the mandibular first premolar tooth is described.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.16666666666667keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/6. tuberculosis of the orbit and lacrimal gland: a clinical study of 14 cases.Fourteen patients with tuberculosis of the orbit and lacrimal gland seen over a period of 20 years have been presented. The majority of them were between the ages of 4 to 15 years. Males were affected twice as frequently as females. Left side was affected four times as frequently as the right side. There were eight patients of periostitis of orbital margin, one patient of dacryoadenitis, three patients of tuberculoma of orbital tissues, and two patients of tuberculoma of maxillary sinus. One patient with periostitis had involvement of the greater and lesser wings of sphenoid in addition to the involvement of upper-outer orbital margin. Two periostitis patients had prolapse of the palpebral portion of the lacrimal gland. The clinical presentation and gross appearance of the tuberculoma of the lacrimal gland was similar to those found in benign mixed tumor. The patients with tuberculoma of orbital tissues presented as pseudotumors. The mimicry of tuberculoma of maxillary sinus to carcinoma has been mentioned. Associated tuberculous lesions were pulmonary in eight patients, cervical lymphadenitis in ten patients, intestinal in one patient, and caries spine in one patient. In two patients the disease developed in the absence of any other tuberculous lesion discovered in the body. The cases were cured by wide surgical removal of all the diseased tissues combined with antituberculous chemotherapy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1.1666666666667keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/6. tuberculosis of the thyroid gland: a clinicopathological profile of four cases and review of the literature.Four cases of tuberculosis of the thyroid with different presentations including chronic sinus (following drainage of thyroid abscess), thyrotoxicosis, severe dysphagia clinically mimicking malignancy and euthyroid multinodular goitre are described. Except in the case presenting with chronic sinus (discharging acid-fast bacilli), the diagnosis was a pathological surprise (cytopathology in one and histopathology in two). Only in one case was there evidence of disease outside the cervical region. All cases showed multiple coalescing and caseating epitheloid cell granulomas along with giant cells, which are considered as diagnostic of tuberculous thyroiditis even if acid fast bacilli cannot be demonstrated. The literature is reviewed and the pathogenesis discussed.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.66666666666667keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/6. Mycobacterial infection of the parotid gland: an unusual cause of parotid swelling.Six cases of mycobacterial infection of the parotid gland are reviewed. All six cases presented solely with a slowly enlarging parotid swelling clinically indistinguishable from a parotid tumour. All of the swellings required surgical removal, superficial parotidectomy in four cases, and enucleation in two cases to obtain a definitive diagnosis.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.83333333333333keywords = gland (Clic here for more details about this article) |