Objective: To describe presentations, comorbidities, investigations, and surgical treatment of patients with mucormycosis amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at the department of ENT, and Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Teaching Institute, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan from June 2020 to June 2021. All the patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included.
J Pak Med Assoc
September 2013
Objective: To determine the frequency of tuberculous lymphadenitis in patients with cervical lymphadenopathy, and to determine the association of tuberculous lymphadenitis with body mass index.
Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of ear, nose, throat (ENT), Head and Neck Surgery, Post Graduate Medical Institute, Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, from March, 2010 to February 2011 included 101 patients with enlarged cervical lymph nodes fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in cervical lymph nodes by fine needle aspiration and open biopsies where needed.