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

Tamara Phiri; Joep van Oosterhout; Samuel Kampondeni; Theresa Allain; Henry Mwandumba

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2021.09.026

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

Tamara Phiri
, Joep van Oosterhout
, Samuel Kampondeni
, Theresa Allain
, Henry Mwandumba

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e145-e148
Journal	Chest
Volume	161
Issue number	3
Early online date	5 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2021.09.026
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 5 Mar 2022

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

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