Tuberculosis as a Cause of Rapid Salivary Gland Swelling in the Elderly – A Case Report

A 77-year-old man was admitted to the internal medicine department for a 5-day history of progressive preauricular swelling. Two lines of antibiotic treatment failed to achieve any improvement. Fine needle aspiration cytology was conducted and smear staining with the Ziehl-Neelsen stain as well as a...

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Main Authors: Noel Lorenzo Villalba, Maria Belen Alonso Ortiz, Zaida Cordoba Sosa, Saturnino Suárez Ortega, Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2020-02-01
Series:European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/1505