TY - JOUR T1 - A Cervical Mass in an HIV-Positive Patient AU - Asadollahi-amin, Ali AU - Mousavi, Seyed Alireza PY - 2018 DA - March DO - 10.5799/jmid.404247 JF - Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases JO - J Microbil Infect Dis PB - Aydın ECE WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-3158 SP - 41 EP - 42 VL - 08 IS - 01 LA - en AB - A Cervical Mass in an HIV-PositivePatientSeyedAlireza Mousavi, Ali Asadollahi-AminDepartment of Infectious Disease,Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranABSTRACTWedescribe an HIV-infected man with a left side cervical swelling which finallydiagnosed with tuberculosis.In contrast to HIV-negative persons, nearly alltuberculous lymphadenitis (scrofula), the most kind of extrapulmonarytuberculosis, in patients with AIDS is multifocal. Constitutional symptoms suchas fever, weight loss, and evidence of the lung involvement (parenchyma, nodes,or pleura) or elsewhere are seen in this setting. Positive findings onaspiration material are more frequently seen than HIV-negative population. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2018; 8(1):41-42Keywords:Tuberculosis, HIV, cervical mass,clinical image KW - Tuberculosis KW - HIV KW - cervical mass KW - clinical image CR - REFERENCES 1. Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Timothy R. Sterling, Haas DW. Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th ed. Copyright 2015 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier Inc; 251: 2787-2818. UR - https://doi.org/10.5799/jmid.404247 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/438896 ER -