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Laryngeal tuberculosis: an unsuspected danger
D J Houghton1, J D Bennett, F Rapado
1Department of Otolaryngology, University Clinical Department, Liverpool.
The British Journal of Clinical Practice
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
It is always important to treat conditions which may be cancerous with respect and, where there is suspicion, to take biopsies for histological examination. A hoarse voice may, in addition, be a sign of tuberculosis of the larynx, and the clinical appearance can be similar to a carcinoma. Preoperative chest x-ray (not always performed) and an awareness by the histologist of such a possibility are important now that this condition is increasing in frequency in parallel with conditions where immunological status is compromised.