Open AccessCalvarial tuberculosis presenting as cystic lesion: An unusual presentation in two patients
Author(s) -
Pratima Khare,
Renu Gupta,
Priyanka Chand,
Swapnil Agarwal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.168844
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , scalp , disease , lesion , pathology , surgery , immunology
Tuberculosis is a common disease in developing countries such as India, posing a major public health problem. With human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection being a global endemic, there has been a resurgence of tuberculosis even in developed countries. Tuberculosis may affect almost any part of the body. However, tuberculosis of the calvarium is very rare. Presentation of tuberculosis as a soft tissue swelling on the scalp poses a diagnostic problem. These two cases are being reported here to convey the utility of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in providing the confirmatory diagnosis obviating the need for invasive surgical procedure.