INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that has displayed increasing incidence in the last decades. It is estimated that up to 20% of tuberculosis cases affect extra-pulmonary organs. In the ENT area, soft palate and tongue are the least probable locations. CASE REPORT A 62-year-old female with a history of rheumatoid arthritis and treatment with corticosteroids and Adalimumab, de...

Tuberculosis still represents a major public health problem, especially in low-resource countries where the burden of the disease is more important. Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug drug-resistant tuberculosis constitute serious problems for the efficient control of the disease stressing the need to investigate resistance to first- and second-line drugs. Conventional methods for detecti...

OBJECTIVES To determine the performance of the FASTPlaqueTB test, based on bacteriophage amplification technology, by comparison with the BACTEC 460 TB culture system, the Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium culture method and Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining. METHODS Of 400 sputum specimens studied in our laboratory, 19 were excluded due to contaminant growth. The FASTPlaqueTB test was performed accord...

Objective A retrospective study comparing the diagnostic performance of the BACTEC™ MGIT™ 960 system (M960 system; BD Worldwide, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) with Löwenstein-Jensen (L-J) culture to detect mycobacteria in sputum specimens from patients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Methods Sputum samples were analysed for the presence of acid-fast bacilli (AFB). Samples were inoculated...

In 1995, a 40-year-old heterosexual man developed a perianal tumor that rapidly increased in size. Following a clinical and histologic diagnosis of a large condyloma acuminatum (CA), the tumor was partially resected in a primary care hospital. Subsequently, recurrent perianal fistulae and abscesses required several surgical interventions, and the patient underwent a transverse colostomy to allo...

Melanotic Neuroectodermal Tumour of Infancy (MNTI) is a rare neoplasm typically reported in infancy, involving the head and neck regions. Although described as benign tumour, growth rapid has high local recurrence rate. Due to locally destructive growth, it can easily be misdiagnosed malignant leading unwarranted potentially harmful interventions. Therefore, histopathological assessment pertine...