Mediastinal lymphadenopathy due to mycobacterial infection

MERAL M., AKGÜN M., KAYNAR H., MİRİCİ N. A., GORGUNER M., SAĞLAM L., ...Daha Fazla

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, cilt.57, sa.3, ss.124-126, 2004 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 57 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2004
  • Dergi Adı: JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.124-126
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Tuberculous lymphadenitis without pulmonary manifestation is an uncommon entity in developed countries, and the possibility of tuberculous infection is usually ignored in the differential diagnosis of lymphadenopathy. Therefore, appropriate treatment may be delayed. Paralysis of the recur-rent laryngeal nerve caused by mediastinal lymphadenopathy due to tuberculosis is an extremely rare condition. In this paper, we present a patient who had vocal cord paralysis caused by tuberculous lymphadenopathy of the superior mediastinum. After anti-tuberculosis treatment, vocal cord function was only partially recovered, while the clinical, radiological, and laboratory abnormalities were completely recovered.