Cervical mycobacterial lymphadenitis

ABSTRACT

Cervical lymphadenopathy may arise from infections with mycobacteria other than mycobacterial tuberculosis. These infections are being diagnosed more frequently, and reported to be an important cause of cervicofacial lymphadenitis in Western countries and United states. These infections resemble mycobacterial tuberculosis in its clinical picture, but it is important to make a distinction between them, for their clinical courses and treatments, are different. This work discussed the differential diagnosis of mycobacterial lymphadenitis and illusterated five cases of non tuberculous mycobacteria out of forty three cases examined, and showed that tuberculosis still having a higher incidence among our patients