Tuberculose extra ganglionnaire de la tête et du cou

Abstract

Objective : ENT extra-nodal localisation of tuberculosis is an uncommon condition. Clinical symptomatology is misleading, so having the problem of differential diagnosis with tumoral disease. We report 12 cases of extra-nodal localisations of tuberculosis treated in ENT department of the Fattouma Bourguiba hospital of Monastir between 1995 and 2009. The mean patients age is 38 years. Topographic analysis shows 3 laryngeal localisations, 3 on the salivary glands, 2 tonsillar, 2 on the nasopharynx and 2 rhinosinusal. The diagnosis was in all cases histo-pathological. All our patients received an
antitubercular treatment with favorable evolution.

Keywords : Tuberculosis, larynx, nasopharynx, salivary glands, tonsil