Ulcerative lesion over tongue: a diagnostic dilemma

Authors

  • Ashfaque Ansari Department of ENT, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
  • L. V. Manjusha Bavisetty Department of ENT, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India http://orcid,org/0000-0001-5413-9583

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20214689

Keywords:

Tongue, Tuberculosis, Painful oral ulcer, Chronic solitary ulcer, Oral tuberculosis

Abstract

Tuberculosis even today remains as the most common infectious disease affecting lungs in India despite having advanced diagnostic testing and a national programme to eradicate this disease. It may present with various clinical appearances, of them tongue tuberculosis is rare and it mimics malignant lingual neoplasms on clinical examination which was rarely described in the literature. In this article we are presenting a 69-year-old patient with tuberculosis of tongue presented as a painful ulcer, so far very few cases reported

Author Biographies

Ashfaque Ansari, Department of ENT, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN DEPARTMENT OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

L. V. Manjusha Bavisetty, Department of ENT, Mahatma Gandhi Mission Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

i am Post graduate final year student pursuing Master of surgery degree in otorhinolaryngology department

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2021-11-25

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