Meral Mehmet, Akgun Metin, Kaynar Hasan, Mirici Arzu, Gorguner Metin, Saglam Leyla, Erdogan Fazli
Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
Jpn J Infect Dis. 2004 Jun;57(3):124-6.
Tuberculous lymphadenitis without pulmonary manifestation is an uncommon entity in developed countries, and the possibility of tuberculous infection is usually ignored in the differential diagnosis of lymphadenopathy. Therefore, appropriate treatment may be delayed. Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve caused by mediastinal lymphadenopathy due to tuberculosis is an extremely rare condition. In this paper, we present a patient who had vocal cord paralysis caused by tuberculous lymphadenopathy of the superior mediastinum. After anti-tuberculosis treatment, vocal cord function was only partially recovered, while the clinical, radiological, and laboratory abnormalities were completely recovered.
在发达国家，无肺部表现的结核性淋巴结炎是一种不常见的病症，在淋巴结病的鉴别诊断中，结核感染的可能性通常被忽视。因此，可能会延误适当的治疗。由结核引起的纵隔淋巴结病导致的喉返神经麻痹是一种极其罕见的情况。在本文中，我们报告了一名因上纵隔结核性淋巴结病导致声带麻痹的患者。抗结核治疗后，声带功能仅部分恢复，而临床、影像学和实验室异常完全恢复。
