Re: Calvarial Tuberculosis in a Preschool-Aged Child An uncommon entity
Journal Title: Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal - Year 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
I read with interest the case report by Santra et al. published in the November 2017 issue of SQUMJ in which the clinical presentation and management plan of a two-and-a-half-year-old Indian child with calvarial tuberculosis (TB) was described.1 It is possible that an HIV infection could have contributed to such a rare case of paediatric calvarial TB. As a result of the development of more potent antitubercular drugs and improved socioeconomic standards, there has been a remarkable reduction in the number of TB cases worldwide; however, atypical and extrapulmonary TB cases among HIV/AIDs patients nevertheless represent a major proportion of new TB cases.2 In particular, HIV and TB remain distressing health hazards in India, with a substantial prevalence of co-infection (12.3%); moreover, 56% of TB lesions among co-infected Indian patients are extrapulmonary.3 It has been recommended that all TB patients in India should be evaluated for HIV risk factors and counselled to undergo HIV testing, while all HIV-positive cases should be screened for TB.3
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Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi
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- DOI 10.18295/squmj.2018.18.01.025
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