Treatment of cervical lymph node tuberculosis: When surgery should be performed? A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

lymph node tuberculosis is the most common form of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Although diagnosis is usually difficult, therapeutic management remains a challenge and a subject of national and international debate.

Materials and methods

the medical records of patients with cervical lymph node tuberculosis who were treated at 20 August Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco, between May 2017 and November 2018 were reviewed. The results of the treatment were analyzed retrospectively.The aim of our work was to identify all causes of medical treatment failure in cervical lymph node tuberculosis, and to propose indications for the use of surgery in cervical lymph node tuberculosis in Morocco.

Results

Out of a total of 104 patients, the mean age was 24 years, the sex ra

SUBMITTER: Lekhbal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7256428 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature