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Primary lingual tuberculosis: a case report
A Gupta1, K J Shinde, I Bhardwaj
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Pravara Rural Medical College, Loni, Maharashatra, India.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|April 16, 1998
Abstract:
Tuberculosis is very common in India and Southeast Asia, where the prevalence rate is about four per 1000 population and the incidence rate of the disease is two per cent. Fifteen per cent of the tuberculous population of the world reside in India. Both secondary and primary tuberculous lesions of the tongue and oral cavity are rare. We report a 60-year-old male with the seventh case of primary lingual tuberculosis.