@article{17081, keywords = {Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms, Tuberculoma, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary}, author = {Goodman R S and Mattel S and Kaufman D and Grant J M}, title = {Tuberculoma of the nasopharynx.}, abstract = {

When a patient of oriental extraction was seen with a mass in the nasopharynx, squamous cell carcinoma appeared to be the obvious diagnosis. Histologic examination, however, proved the mass to be a tuberculoma. This condition, which was not rare in the past, is almost always secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis. It responds to antituberculous medications.

}, year = {1981}, journal = {The Laryngoscope}, volume = {91}, pages = {794-7}, month = {1981 May}, issn = {0023-852X}, doi = {10.1288/00005537-198105000-00012}, language = {eng}, }