Author/Authors :
Özer, Murat Department of Pediatrics - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey , Özsurekç, Yasemin Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey , Cengi, Ali Bülent Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract :
Nasal tuberculosis is a rare clinical entity which mainly presents in elderly people. Nasal tuberculosis has always been considered to be secondary to tuberculosis of the lungs, and in rare instances it is a primary infection, usually when mycobacteria are inhaled. We describe the case of a 10-year-old girl who was successfully treated for primary nasal tuberculosis. This patient is one of the very few children who have been reported to have primary nasal tuberculosis.
