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Head and Neck Tuberculosis: 6-Year Retrospective Study
Tuberculosis de cabeza y cuello: estudio retrospectivo de 6 años
Carlos Miguel Chiesa Estomba
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, Frank Alberto Betances Reinoso, Teresa Rivera Schmitz, Carla Cristina Ossa Echeverri, María Jesús González Cortés, Carmelo Santidrian Hidalgo
Servicio de ORL, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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while in 48 &#40;65&#46;8&#37;&#41; the CXR was anodyne or the findings were not suggestive of TB&#46; Echography was used in 37 &#40;69&#46;8&#37;&#41; of the cases of cervical TB and the findings were suggestive of lymph node TB in 13 &#40;35&#46;1&#37;&#41; of the patients&#46; Lastly&#44; tomography was used in 58 &#40;79&#46;4&#37;&#41; of the cases&#44; being suggestive in 27 &#40;37&#37;&#41; of these&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0020"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">All the patients were treated with anti-TB chemotherapy&#44; although biopsy for histological study was required for 16 &#40;21&#46;9&#37;&#41; of them&#46; The drugs used were isoniazid&#44; rifampicin&#44; pyrazinamide&#44; and ethambutol&#46; Only 4 &#40;5&#46;5&#37;&#41; patients presented alterations in hepatic function markers during the drug treatment&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Discussion</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With respect to sex&#44; several studies report a disease dominance in males&#44; with a ratio of 1&#46;8&#58;1&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0215"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7&#44;8</span></a> This ratio was a bit smaller in our study &#40;1&#46;28&#58;1&#41;&#44; with the male population being slightly more affected&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As far as reaching a diagnosis&#44; an in-depth history&#44; a detailed physical examination and a chest CXR to rule out lung involvement are essential&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0225"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Along these lines&#44; we have an arsenal of tests that can help to reach a diagnosis&#46; One of these is FNA&#44; backed by several studies that attribute it a sensitivity of up to 80&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0230"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10&#44;11</span></a> However&#44; other authors report lower sensitivities&#46; Memish et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0240"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> found sensitivity of 46&#37;&#44; while Mcallister et al&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0245"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> reported sensitivity of 53&#37;&#46; Our results reflect sensitivity that falls in the middle between those of these 2 teams&#59; in 65&#37; of the cases in which an FNA was performed&#44; a TB diagnosis was possible&#46; It is important to emphasise that in their study Mcallister et al&#46; did not manage to demonstrate greater diagnostic profitability by using sonography to locate suspicious adenopathy&#46; In that study&#44; 50&#37; of the adenopathies located using echography were positive&#44; while 54&#37; the adenopathies located without echography were positive&#59; however&#44; this result was unreliable as there were only 26 patients in which adenopathies were located using echography&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0250"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a></p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As for imaging test&#44; in the cases of tuberculous involvement at the level of the head and neck and depending on location&#44; echography&#44; CT scans&#44; and magnetic resonance images were useful&#46; The most frequent finding was a hypodense centre with peripheral enhancement when using contrast&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0255"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In turn&#44; stains can be used in studying histological samples through specific techniques&#46; These are especially useful if there is a suspicion of granulomas in the sample&#44; as it is possible to detect acid-alcohol-resistant bacilli&#46; However&#44; the PCR is currently a highly useful test in cases where there are still doubts&#46; In aspirated samples of cervical adenopathies&#44; the results generally yield sensibility of 41&#37;&#8211;75&#37; and specificity of nearly 97&#46;3&#37;&#8211;100&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0260"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16&#44;17</span></a> In our study&#44; it was possible to confirm the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB in 92&#46;15&#37; if all the patients&#44; and up to 94&#46;59&#37; of the adenopathy aspirates&#46; However&#44; the remaining 7&#46;85&#37; presented a negative result &#40;2 cases of adenopathy aspirate&#44; 1 larynx biopsy and 1 ear biopsy&#41;&#44; which were considered false negatives due to how suggestive the clinical picture was&#44; the positivity of the rest of the tests and the overall response to treatment&#46; Individually&#44; it should be remember that the PCR specificity in tissue samples from the larynx and ear are not totally clear and that&#44; during preparation of samples for study&#44; there are possible errors that may occur&#44; affecting the final result&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is important to mention new tests&#44; recently introduced to improve diagnosis of tuberculous infection&#44; whose objective is detecting <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">in vitro</span> production of interferon-gamma &#40;IFN-&#947;&#41; against <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">M&#46; tuberculosis</span>&#46; These tests are known as interferon-gamma release assays &#40;IGRA&#41;&#46; One of these assays&#44; sold as the QuantiFERON-TB-Gold in Tube<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span> &#40;QFT-IT&#41; test &#40;Cellestis Ltd&#46;&#59; Carnegie&#44; Victoria&#44; Australia&#41;&#44; measures the specific antigen production of IFN-&#947; by the circulating T-cells in whole blood&#44; using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay &#40;ELISA&#41;&#46; Another is the T-SPOT&#46;TB<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#174;</span> &#40;Oxford Immunotec&#44; Oxford&#44; United Kingdom&#41;&#44; which measures the IFN-&#947; producing T-cells using the enzyme-linked immunospot &#40;Elispot&#41; technique&#46; These tests achieve greater specificity on diagnosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0270"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a></p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With respect to the clinical signs and symptoms of head and neck TB&#44; tuberculous lymphadenitis is the main type reported in the literature&#46; It represents approximately 95&#37; of the cases&#44; and is present in more than 25&#37; of patients affected by TB&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0225"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> The results we obtained in this study were similar &#40;although slightly less&#41;&#44; with 72&#46;6&#37; of the patients presenting lymph gland involvement&#46; This may be because not all tuberculous patients that come to our centre are referred for specialised ENT evaluation&#46; In addition&#44; as this was a retrospective study&#44; we included only the patients referred to our department for suspicious adenopathies that were then diagnosed as having tuberculous lymphadenitis&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">According to our results and coinciding with current literature&#44; laryngeal involvement is the next most frequent location after cervical lymphadenitis&#46; In fact&#44; until the beginnings of the 1900s&#44; it was the most prevalent disease of the larynx&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0275"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">19</span></a> Based on autopsy studies carried out on patients with pulmonary TB&#44; up to 48&#37; of the cadavers presented involvement at the laryngeal level&#46; Currently&#44; after the introduction of anti-TB chemotherapy&#44; the incidence of this location has dropped dramatically&#44; with the reported worldwide incidence being close to 0&#46;8&#37;&#8211;1&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0270"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">18</span></a> However&#44; despite being rare&#44; the importance of laryngeal involvement lies in differential diagnosis with malignant diseases at this level&#59; consequently&#44; it is necessary to biopsy the lesion for study&#44; to avoid complications from a delayed diagnosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0280"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">20</span></a></p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Pharyngeal involvement is in third place for frequency of locations&#44; again based on the data available in the literature&#46; In our case series&#44; hypopharyngeal involvement was the most common&#44; with 3 &#40;4&#46;1&#37;&#41; cases&#59; this was followed by oropharyngeal location&#44; with a single &#40;1&#46;4&#37;&#41; case&#46; When there is pharyngeal involvement&#44; the literature indicates that it is frequently associated with pulmonary involvement&#44; which was the case in 100&#37; of the cases in our study&#46; As for the type of lesions found&#44; the lesions were ulcerous and painful in 3 of the cases and an ulcerated&#44; erythematous-type lesion in 1&#46; With respect to symptoms&#44; these patients generally present with dysphagia and&#44; less frequently&#44; odynophagia&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0285"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21&#44;22</span></a></p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The other locations involved in our series corresponded to the oral cavity&#46; This could present as primary TB or be a result of extra-thoracic dissemination from a primary pulmonary focus through contaminated sputum or haematogenous dissemination&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0295"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23&#44;24</span></a> The tongue is usually the structure most often involved at this level&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0305"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a> Specifically&#44; the lateral side of the tongue is the most probable site of a lesion&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0310"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a></p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Ear TB is also a rare form&#44; representing less than 1&#37; of the chronic ear diseases&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0315"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a> It can present as a non-painful chronic otorrhea&#44; with a course of several months&#59; it can be accompanied by polypoid formations<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0315"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a> or involve facial paralysis complications&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0320"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28</span></a> Cutaneous TB has also been described&#46; This usually manifests as an irregularly shaped&#44; friable skin plaque&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0325"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">29</span></a></p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Salivary gland involvement is rare&#46; The method of dissemination seems to be associated with the presence of dental or oral cavity lesions&#59; contamination is generally through contiguity or lymphatic-blood bacterium migration&#44; normally manifesting in a period of immunosuppression&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0330"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">30</span></a> If it is a case of primary TB at this level&#44; the presentation is normally in the form of suppurative sialadenitis or simulating a chronic tumoral lesion&#46; Secondary forms are generally associated with systemic TB&#44; most frequently pulmonary&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0335"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">31</span></a></p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are few published cases at nose level&#46; These usually manifest as nasal obstruction&#44; accompanied by chronic rhinorrhoea&#46; Lesions at this level are generally of a granulomatous or ulcerative type&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0340"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">32</span></a> During the physical examination&#44; they are often confused with neoplastic lesions and&#44; in more advanced states&#44; with Wegener&#39;s granulomatosis&#44; which is why early diagnosis is important&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0315"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a> Tuberculous infection is also possible in the nasal sinuses&#44; where it can cause bone erosion&#46; If there is local progression&#44; these cases may become complicated with episodes of meningitis&#44; pituitary invasion or skin invasion&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0315"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27&#44;33&#8211;35</span></a></p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The drug treatment currently recommended for extrapulmonary TB is the plan based on the combination of 4 drugs&#58; isoniazid&#44; rifampicin&#44; pyrazinamide&#44; and ethambutol for 2 months&#44; and then isoniazid and rifampicin for another 4 months&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0360"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">36</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0085">Conclusion</span><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite being a rare clinical picture&#44; the similarity of TB with diseases that have a poor prognosis and the difficulty involved in TB diagnosis make it necessary to consider TB when examining patients with granulomatous or ulcerative lesions in the ENT area&#46; As for our results&#44; the incidence of TB according to its ENT location is similar to that reported in the literature&#46; It is important to point out the use of PCR in our study and the advantages that its application represents for diagnosis&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0090">Conflict of Interests</span><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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