Tuberculosis as a cervical lymphadenopathy cause

Abstract

The tuberculosis (TB) is an infect-contagious worldwide distribution disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and other atypical Mycobacteria. Lymph node involve- ment is late, and its associated clinical manifestations are usually unspecifics, therefore the diagnosis of tuberculosis lymph node is often delayed and is an unexpected finding in numerous occasions. This article aims to carry out a literature review of lymph node tuberculosis and to emphasize that TB must be taken into account as differential diagno­sis in cervical masses, which often occur with few associated symptoms. In this article we present two cases of lymph node TB diagnosed in our department in last months, both cases presented exclusively as cervical mass of slow growth, without any accompanying pulmonary symptoms and were diagnosed as TB after the surgical removal of the lesion and its histopathological study.