A Timely Burst: Tuberculous Retropharyngeal Abscess

Winton Chong; S T Loh; J Kulasegarah; T L Loh; Tengku Mohamed Izam Bin Tengku Kamalden

doi:10.1007/s12070-020-01809-w

A Timely Burst: Tuberculous Retropharyngeal Abscess

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Oct;74(Suppl 2):1800-1802. doi: 10.1007/s12070-020-01809-w. Epub 2020 Jan 30.

Authors

Winton Chong^{1

2}, S T Loh³, J Kulasegarah¹, T L Loh³, Tengku Mohamed Izam Bin Tengku Kamalden³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
² Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Malaya Medical Centre, Lembah Pantai, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Sultan Ismail, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Abstract

Tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We describe an immunocompetent teenager who has her tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess ruptured and then diagnosis confirmed by the presence of acid-fast bacilli from the gastric lavage.

Keywords: Airway obstruction; Gastric lavage; Retropharyngeal abscess; Tuberculosis.