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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-6-11
pubmed:abstractText
Scrofula has been called "The Dangerous Masquerader" because of its propensity to mimic other diseases. Scrofula has been mistaken for metastatic carcinoma, regional neoplasms, thyroglossal duct cysts, fungal disease, toxoplasmosis, lymphoma, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, bacterial adenitis, and collagen vascular disease. Because of the enormous number of infectious and neoplastic diseases acquired by the HIV positive population, the diagnosis of scrofula may be further delayed in some patients. In these patients the early diagnosis of scrofula might allow the early identification of HIV infection and the early institution of anti-retroviral therapy. The recommended duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy is also different in HIV positive patients. Therefore, to ensure the patient of the most beneficial therapy, the physician must always consider scrofula in the differential diagnosis of a neck mass, and particularly because of the increases incidence of intrapulmonary tuberculosis in AIDS patients, he must consider the possibility of HIV infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0004-4849
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
83
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
487-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
The re-emergence of scrofula with HIV infection: a review of epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.
pubmed:affiliation
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review