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Case Series and Case Reports

Unusual presentation of tuberculosis

Saurabh Singh MBBS MD   ^*    Deepak Pandey MBBS MD   ^*   Zuber Ahmad MBBS MD   ^*   Rakesh Bhargava MBBS MD   ^*   Iffat Hameed MBBS      Nazia Mehfooz MBBS   ^*

^* Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases; Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, UP, India

Correspondence to: Dr Saurabh Kumar Singh, Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, UP, India Email: doctorsaurabhsingh{at}gmail.com

Mediastinal mass is not an unusual entity. It occurs mostly due to lymphoma, thymoma, germ cell tumours, granulomatous diseases, and so on. Tuberculosis is an uncommon cause of mediastinal mass. It is rarely suspected when it is presented in such an unusual way. We report here a case of a 35-year-old male who presented with mediastinal mass, which was later confirmed as a case of tuberculosis on histopathological examination. He was successfully treated with anti-tubercular drugs.

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