Parotid gland tuberculosis is still a rare entity and has mostly been diagnosed after parotidectomy. We present five cases which were diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and managed medically avoiding surgical intervention.
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Primary tuberculous dacryocystitis as an entity is not mentioned in recent standard ophthalmology textbooks 1 owing to the paucity of case reports in the English-language literature for the past 3 decades. We present the rare case of an otherwise healthy woman with bilateral tuberculous dacryocystitis along with preauricular lymphadenopathy; no other tuberculous lesion was discovered on her body. The clinical presentation resembled that of chronic bacterial dacryocystitis. Diagnosis was made postoperatively on histopathologic examination of the lacrimal sac wall. The patient underwent antitubercular treatment (ATT), which was successful, and bilateral endonasal endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy.
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