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Can Tuberculosis Lead To Necrotizing Granulomatous Lymphadenitis?

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Posted on Tue, 11 Apr 2017
Question: Is Necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis a case of tubercolosis or acase of cancer?
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Answered by Dr. Shailja Puri (57 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis is necessarily not due to TB/cancer

Detailed Answer:
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Thanks for posting your query on HealthcareMagic.
Necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis is not necessarily due to tuberculosis or cancer.
Necrotizing granulomatous is pathology in lymph node which can occur secondary to various infections like bacterial, viral, parasitic etc.
Clinical presentation and clinical symptomatology needs to be correlated with this pathological finding in lymph node.


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Dr Shailja Puri,
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Can Tuberculosis Lead To Necrotizing Granulomatous Lymphadenitis?

Brief Answer: Necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis is necessarily not due to TB/cancer Detailed Answer: Hello, Thanks for posting your query on HealthcareMagic. Necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis is not necessarily due to tuberculosis or cancer. Necrotizing granulomatous is pathology in lymph node which can occur secondary to various infections like bacterial, viral, parasitic etc. Clinical presentation and clinical symptomatology needs to be correlated with this pathological finding in lymph node. Thanks and take care Dr Shailja Puri,