Coexistence of Tuberculosis and Metastatic Undifferentiated Carcinoma of Nasopharynx in Cervical Lymph Node
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https://doi.org/10.17140/OTLOJ-5-156Keywords:
Lymph nodes tuberculosis, Undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (UCNT), Lymph nodes metastasisAbstract
The coexistence of a head and neck cancer and a lymph node tuberculosis is rarely described. The problem is essentially diagnos-tic. We report the case of a patient with cervical lymphadenopathy and non suspect swelliing of nasopharynx. Histopathological study of lymph node reveled an association of a tubercular adenitis and a metastasis of a squamous cell carcinoma.
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