Open AccessOral tuberculosis following successful treatment of oral malignancy
Author(s) -
Preeti Bagga,
Abhinav Dewan,
Pankaj Agarwal,
Chanchal Garg,
Niloy Ranjan Datta
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.106590
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , malignancy , oral cavity , tongue , lesion , dermatology , chemoradiotherapy , cancer , tongue neoplasm , surgery , radiation therapy , pathology , dentistry
Coexistence of tuberculosis and neoplastic lesion in the oral cavity is a rare phenomenon. Till date, only three such cases have been reported in the English literature. A case of oral tuberculosis manifesting 3 months following the successful treatment of cancer of the oral tongue with chemoradiotherapy is presented. The diagnostic dilemma it posed, and its eventual successful control by anti-tubercular treatment, is discussed.