Lingual Tuberculosis Clinically Resembling as a Neoplasm -A Case Report
Journal Title: Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Lingual tuberculosis is a very rare case in theareas where tuberculosis is endemic. There arediagnostic difficulties in patients presentingwith non healing ulcer over the tongue due tovariety of clinical appearances, most of whichmay clinically resemble malignant lingual neoplasm.Here we report a case of lingual nonhealing ulcer in a 40 years male which was clinicallydiagnosed as malignant ulcer but histopathologyand ZN staining confirmed the diagnosisof lingual tuberculosis.
Authors and Affiliations
Smita S. Shete , Jayashri A. Khiste , Nandkumar M. Deshpande , Gopal A. Pandit
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