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[Laryngeal tuberculosis: study of 11 cases]
M Montejo1, M Alonso, K Aguirrebengoa
1Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital de Cruces, Bilbao.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola
|March 29, 2001
Abstract:
We report 11 patients with laryngeal tuberculosis seen in our hospital, January 1990 to July 2000. Eight were men and all cases presented with dysphonia and/or disphagia. In 8 pulmonary tuberculosis was associated. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from the sputum in 7 patients. Granulomatous laryngitis was demonstrated in the eight patients with laryngeal biopsy. The evolution with medical treatment was favourable in all patients.