Tuberculoma of the nasopharynx

A 67-year-old female patient with tuberculosis of the nasopharynx is reported. The diagnosis was confirmed on histological and bacteriological examination of a biopsy from her postnasal space. There was no evidence of any other active foci of tuberculosis but she had had a right nephrectomy 45 years previously for renal tuberculosis. A review of the literature on nasopharyngeal tuberculosis shows this to be a very rare disease in the absence of active pulmonary involvement.