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Mediastinal Mass with Dysphagia in an Elderly Patient

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We report the use of endoscopic techniques for successful diagnosis in a case of atypical esophageal tuberculosis. Tuberculosis of the esophagus is an unusual presentation of this disease, having been estimated to occur in 0.15% of the people who die of tuberculosis. A few cases of possible primary tuberculous esophagitis have been described. This report describes a patient with dysphagia who appeared to have esophageal tuberculosis without HIV and in the absence of other signs of tuberculosis. The patient responded promptly to treatment with tuberculostatics.

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  1. Dept. of Critical Care and Pulmonary Services, Evangelismos Hospital, University of Athens, Ipsilantou 45-47, GR-10675 Athens,Greece. akotanid@med.uoa.gr, , , , , , GR

    A. Kotanidou, I. Andrianakis, A. Mavrommatis, P. Politis & C. Roussos

  2. Dept. of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens,Greece, , , , , , GR

    I. Bellenis

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  1. A. Kotanidou
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Received: May 21, 2002 ·, Revision accepted: October 16, 2002

Anastasia Kotanidou (corresponding author)

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Kotanidou, A., Andrianakis, I., Mavrommatis, A. et al. Mediastinal Mass with Dysphagia in an Elderly Patient. Infection 31, 178–180 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-003-3085-6

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