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Category: Volume 06 Issue 08 August 2018
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Title: Tuberculosis of Tongue: A Case Report

Authors: Dr Kunal Ranjan, Dr Praneeth Kumar Koduru, Dr Ashok Kumar Das

 DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i8.07

Abstract

Tuberculosis was one of the most prevalent diseases in developing countries more than developed countries. Although incidence of tuberculosis is gradually decreasing due to effective treatment regimen, there are still significant cases reporting here and there. Most common site being lungs, extra-pulmonary sites are not of less significance. Sometimes infection of extra-pulmonary sites can be seen even without any primary in the lung. Hence it is important to suspect any non-healing lesion in any part of the upper aero-digestive tract as a possibility of being tuberculosis. Here, we present a non-healing lesion on the tongue of a 52 year old male presented to our hospital, initially suspected as a cancerous growth but was ultimately diagnosed as having tuberculosis.

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Corresponding Author

Dr Praneeth Kumar Koduru