Oesophageal tuberculosis mimicking a tumour during treatment for nodal tuberculosis.

AUTOR(ES)

Kaur, U

RESUMO

A patient with cervical lymph node tuberculosis developed a tubercular ulcer in the oesophagus eight weeks after starting treatment. This was probably due to a drug related hypersensitivity reaction in an adjacent mediastinal lymph node and subsided with continued treatment.

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