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A Timely Burst: Tuberculous Retropharyngeal Abscess

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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.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Winton Chong & J. Kulasegarah

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Sultan Ismail, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    S. T. Loh, T. L. Loh & Tengku Mohamed Izam Bin Tengku Kamalden

  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Malaya Medical Centre, Lembah Pantai, 59100, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Winton Chong

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WC: Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing the original draft, review and editing, Visualization. STL: Formal analysis, Writing and editing the draft. JK, TLL and TMIBTK: Conceptualization, Writing—Review & editing, Supervision

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Chong, W., Loh, S.T., Kulasegarah, J. et al. A Timely Burst: Tuberculous Retropharyngeal Abscess. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 74 (Suppl 2), 1800–1802 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01809-w

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