Clinical presentations of Leishmania infection include visceral (most common form), cutaneous, mucocutaneous, mucosal and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis. Mucosal form of leishmaniasis mostly involves oral and nasal mucosa. Rarely, laryngeal and pharyngeal mucosa may also be involved. Its concomitant presence with tuberculosis (TB), a disease rampant in India, is uncommon. Here we are repor...

Laryngeal tuberculosis is a rare entity. We consider the case of woman 62 who presented one-year evolving chronic dysphonia chart associated with cough, febricula and general health damage. The nasofibroscopy showed budding ulcerous lesion larynx priori evoking granulomatous or cancer. BAAR spits were strongly positive radiographic pictures thorax, typically evoked pulmonary tuberculosis. Seein...

background: tuberculosis of the larynx is a rare form of tuberculosis. patients usually present with hoarseness or dysphagia and other nonspecific constitutional symptoms like fever or localized pain. in this study, we present a case of primary vocal cord lesion with tuberculosis. case presentation: a 72 year old man presented with hoarseness of voice, low grade fever, and night sweating with i...

The occurrence of tuberculosis of the larynx in children is usually regarded as being extremely rare. This view may be due, in part, to the fact that the symptoms of this disease in children are seldom conspicuous, but probably it is also due in no small measure to the fact that an examination of the larynx of a child is not frequently made. My experience leads me to believe that this examinati...

Fifty-one patients with established pulmonary tuberculosis underwent clinical evaluation and endoscopic examination of the larynx to determine the manifestations of laryngeal involvement. There were 46 males and 5 females (mean age 38 years). Fever, cough and haemoptysis were the prime pulmonary complaints while hoarseness, weak voice and episodic dyspnoea were the main laryngeal symptoms. Site...

INTRODUCTION The aim of our retrospective study was to review the clinical and epidemiological presentation of head and neck tuberculosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed the history of 73 patients with head and neck tuberculosis hospitalized in the Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of Warsaw, between 1983 and 2009. RESULTS We found that 26 (35.6%) patients presented with ly...