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Cervical lymphadenopathy in a patient receiving anti-TNF a treatment: glandular tuberculosis or oropharyngeal tularemia? [PDF]

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, 2023
BACKGROUND: Tularemia is a global anthroponotic disease that is endemic in some regions of Turkey, and it is carried by small rodents (hares) and arthropods (ticks, horseflies).
S. Alkan, İ. Şahinoğlu, M. Serhat Şahinoğlu   +2 more
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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases in Children

Pathogens, 2020
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) are ubiquitous and opportunistic emerging bacteria with the potential to colonize and eventually infect either immunocompromised or immunocompetent individuals.
Aniello Meoli, Michela Deolmi, Rosanna Iannarella, Susanna Esposito   +3 more
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ENT manifestations of tuberculosis: an important aspect of ENT practice

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
Tuberculosis involving organs other than the lungs is termed as ´extra pulmonary tuberculosis´. Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health problem despite the fact that the causative organism was discovered more than 100 years ago.
Shilpam Sharma, Amit Kumar Rana
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Extra-nodal Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (Germinal Center Type) Manifesting as Non-healing Extraction Socket [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Lymphomas occurring in the oral cavity are rare. They account only for about 2% of extra-nodal sites. Most of the lymphomas occur in the lymph nodes and in the oral cavity, the most commonly affected region is the Waldeyer’s ring.
MANASA SYAMALA, MANJUNATH ANEKONDA BASAVARAJAPPA, SANA PATHAN, AHMED MUJIB BANGALORE RAHEEM, DIVYASRI GODAVARTHY   +4 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
The yield from aspirating lymph nodes and pleural fluid for diagnosing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is unknown. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from lymph node or pleural fluid aspirates of 21 patients; 7 (33%) cultures grew XDR ...
Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi, François J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, N. Sarita Shah   +9 more
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A New Diagnostic Approach Using the NLR/LMR Ratio in the Differential Diagnosis of Neck Masses: Hematologic Evaluation of Patients With Cervical Lymphadenopathy

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, EarlyView.
This study evaluates complete blood count–derived inflammatory ratios for differentiating lymphoma from benign cervical lymphadenopathies. The novel NLR/LMR ratio demonstrated superior diagnostic performance (AUC = 0.71, OR = 4.6) compared with conventional indices.
Servet Erdemes, Gizem Ay Haldız, Müslüm Ayral, Ali Çetin   +3 more
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Dermatopathic Lymphadenitis

Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2021
Dermatopathic lymphadenopathy usually presents with multiple enlarged lymph nodes. It is often seen in patients with skin diseases with either exfoliative or eczematoid inflammatory erythrodermas. Multiple enlarged lymph nodes usually point to the diagnosis of lymphoma.
Neeti Nagar, Sheetal Arora, Sunil Ranga
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Performance of fine needle aspiration cytology and Ziehl-Neelsen staining technique in the diagnosis of tuberculosis lymphadenitis

BMC Infectious Diseases
Introduction Proper diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) lymphadenitis is critical for its treatment and prevention. Fine needle aspirate cytology (FNAC) is the mainstay method for the diagnosis of TB lymphadenitis in Ethiopia; however, the performance of FNAC
Hawi Kumbi, Musa Mohammed Ali, Alegntaw Abate   +2 more
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Filarial Coinfection Is Associated With Higher Bacterial Burdens and Altered Plasma Cytokine and Chemokine Responses in Tuberculous Lymphadenitis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Filarial infections are known to modulate cytokine responses in pulmonary tuberculosis by their propensity to induce Type 2 and regulatory cytokines.
Gokul Raj Kathamuthu, Gokul Raj Kathamuthu, Saravanan Munisankar, Vaithilingam V. Banurekha, Dina Nair, Rathinam Sridhar, Subash Babu, Subash Babu, Subash Babu   +8 more
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Recovery of Mycobacterium lentiflavum from bronchial lavage during follow-up of an extrapulmonary tuberculosis patient

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2017
Initially diagnosed with cervical lymphadenitis, a 15-year-old boy was started with category I anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Follow-up investigations led to isolation and identification of Mycobacterium lentiflavum by multiple diagnostic and ...
Esther Vise, Michael Mawlong, Akshay Garg, Arnab Sen, Ingudam Shakuntala, Samir Das   +5 more
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