1% and patients presenting with
cold abscess constituted 19.
Fungal osteomyelitis presenting as
cold abscess is rare in the facial bones.
KEY WORDS: Multidrug-resistant
cold abscess, multidrug-resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Key Words: Fine needle aspiration cytology, Role, Tuberculosis,
Cold Abscess.
In case of
cold abscess, the biopsy was taken from the wall of the lymph node.
Surgical treatment of tuberculous
cold abscess of the chest wall.
of patients Splenomegaly 23 (100) Hepatomegaly 13 (50) Cervical LN 11 (42) Ascites 6 (23)
Cold abscess 6 (23) Pleural effusion 5 (19) Choroidal tubercle 1 (4) Table III.
Caseation may occur in microscopic foci within the granulomas, or areas of necrosis may coalesce, forming a
cold abscess, particularly when the immunity is high.
Large retropharyngeal
cold abscess in an adult with respiratory distress.
The lesion in the head of fibula broke through the cortex and had surrounding
cold abscess.
One patient of lymphadenitis with Mycobacterium tuberculosis was present which had progressed to
cold abscess involving the visceral vascular space.