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Secondary tuberculosis of pharynx is a rare condition as pharynx is not a common site for clinically manifest tuberculosis. A rare and unusual case of secondary oropharyngeal tuberculosis in a 40 years male patient, who presented with an ulceroproliferative lesion of oropharynx extending to nasopharynx and laryngopharynx is being reported.
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Dadwal, M., Mohan, C. & Sharma, D.R. Secondary pharyngeal tuberculosis. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck S 59, 261–263 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-007-0075-5
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