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ArticleCureus2024

A Young Man With Tuberculosis in the Neck Soft Tissue: A Case Report.

Xiuming Wang, Haomei Luan, Zheyuan Zhang, Huabin Zhang

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Xiuming WangDepartment of Ultrasound, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN.
Haomei LuanDepartment of Ultrasound, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN.
Zheyuan ZhangDepartment of Ultrasound, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN.
Huabin ZhangDepartment of Ultrasound, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. TB characteristically causes lung infections, giving rise to pulmonary TB. Many extra-pulmonary organs, including soft tissues, may also be affected, often resulting in non-specific clinical features that make disease diagnosis difficult. We present the case of a 28-year-old male who presented with a soft tissue mass in the left neck accompanied by local redness and tenderness for several months. Despite initially erroneous clinical judgment and imaging diagnosis, the progression of the patient's disease combined with a series of laboratory tests led to the diagnosis of soft tissue TB. After routine anti-TB treatment, the patient's condition gradually recovered. This case highlights that when faced with atypical soft tissue lesions, physicians should maintain a high level of TB suspicion to avoid delaying the treatment of the patient's disease and producing a poor prognosis.

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case reportcutaneous tuberculosisextrapulmonary tuberculosissoft tissue tuberculosistuberculosis

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PMID39247000
PMCPMC11377356

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