Tuberculous Glands of the Neck in Children

A clinical review of 128 cases of head and neck tuberculosis presenting over a 10-year period in Bradford, UK

“…Although primarily a disease of cervical lymph nodes occurring in immigrant communities, we show that the disease may also present in Caucasians, both immigrant and indigenous, including Caucasian children. Although the classical description of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis is one of multiple matted nodes, 26,27 these are now uncommon as patients present early. Moreover, many adults in our series presented with a single node, often in the absence of constitutional symptoms.…”

Tuberculous lymphadenitis in childhood: The significance of anonymous mycobacteria

“…Surgery plays the most important part in treatment, as it has since the opening of the twentieth century (Dowd, 1916). Thompson's (1936) deprecatory account met firm rebuttal from Barrington-Ward (1937) and others in the period before streptomycin.…”