A 34-Year-Old Man With a Neck Mass.

Phiri, Tamara, van Oosterhout, Joep, Kampondeni, Samuel, Allain, Theresa and Mwandumba, Henry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4470-3608 (2022) 'A 34-Year-Old Man With a Neck Mass.'. Chest, Vol 161, Issue 3, e145-e148.

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Abstract

CASE PRESENTATION

A 34-year-old man presented to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi with multiple enlarged right cervical lymph nodes. He had no associated constitutional symptoms. Fine-needle aspirate (FNA) of one of the lymph nodes was negative for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) by smear microscopy. The FNA specimen was not sent for histological examination. Mycobacterial culture and Xpert MTB/RIF were not available at the time. He tested positive for HIV but CD4 T-cell count was not requested at the time of HIV diagnosis, and he did not start antiretroviral therapy (ART) pending confirmation of the cause of lymphadenopathy. Excision biopsy of the lymph nodes was planned; however, the patient was lost to follow-up before the procedure was performed.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV Infections > WC 503 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HIV infections WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV Infections > WC 503.5 Complications WF Respiratory System > Tuberculosis > WF 200 Tuberculosis (General) WF Respiratory System > Tuberculosis > WF 220 Diagnosis. Prognosis
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.09.026
Depositing User:	Julie Franco
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2022 10:37
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 10:37
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/20158

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