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Epidemiology and diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis in a tuberculosis low-burden country.
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- Exploring the accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay in detecting lymph node tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra and Xpert MTB/RIF assays for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Diagnostic Accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay for Lymph Node Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.BioMed research international · 2019Pooled it
- XpertThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- PlasmaInfectious diseases (London, England) · 2025Article
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- Clinical characteristics and outcome of Tuberculosis lymphadenitis in a tertiary center from Saudi Arabia.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2023Article
- Profile and histopathology features of top three cases of Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis (EPTB) in West Nusa Tenggara: A retrospective cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Factors associated with localization of tuberculosis disease among patients in a high burden country: A health facility-based comparative study in Ethiopia.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2021Article
- Diagnostic efficacy of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Fluorescence based Microscope for the diagnosis of Tuberculous lymphadenitis.PloS one · 2021Article
- What pulmonologists need to know about extrapulmonary tuberculosis.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2020Review
- Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the Diagnosis of Lymphatic Tuberculosis.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- The causes of lymphadenopathy in the central region of Saudi Arabia: a clinicopathological analysis of 475 cases.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2019Article
- The changing epidemiology of spinal tuberculosis: the influence of international immigration in Catalonia, 1993-2014.Epidemiology and infection · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to describe epidemiological and clinical data of patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis (TL) and evaluate the yield of the diagnostic techniques employed. Retrospective observational study was performed at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain. All adult patients with confirmed TL (microbiologically) or probable TL (suspected by clinical presentation, cyto/histopathological features, and clinical improvement after specific treatment) diagnosed from January 2001 to December 2013 were included. One hundred twenty-two patients were included: 78 (63.9%) patients with confirmed diagnosis and 44 (36.1%) patients with probable TL. Seventy (57.4%) patients were nonnative residents. From 83 fine-needle aspiration (FNA) specimens, 54.8% (40/73) showed granulomatous inflammation, 62.5% (40/64) had positive mycobacterial culture, and 73.3% (11/15) tested positive with Xpert MTB/RIF (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA). From 62 biopsy samples, 96.8% (60/62) showed granulomatous inflammation, 64.6% (31/48) had positive mycobacterial culture, and 46.1% (6/13) tested positive with Xpert MTB/RIF. TL has increasingly been diagnosed in our setting, mostly because of cases diagnosed in nonnative residents. FNA is an easy and safe technique for the diagnosis of suspected TL, and the yield regarding mycobacterial culture seems to be similar to the obtained with biopsy. The Xpert MTB/RIF test from FNA specimens may increase the accuracy of the TL diagnosis and provides quicker results.
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