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A case report of occupational middle ear tuberculosis in a nurse

This article presents a case of a 40-year-old female patient with a right-side middle ear tuberculosis. The patient was a nurse, who had worked at the Department of Pulmology, Clinical Hospital Rijeka for 17 years. The cause was infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis while she assisted in bronchoscopy. The patient was referred to occupational medicine (OM) for confi rmation of occupational disease immediately after surgery. The disease was confi rmed as occupational by the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance of Health Protection at Work. During surgery a sample was taken for microbiological analysis. We did initial and control multislice computed tomography (MSCT) and control magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of temporal bones 6 months after the surgery. The initial MSCT showed total mastoid cell shadowing without destruction, while the control image showed almost full recovery save for a few remaining shadowed cells. Adequately taken occupational history by an OM specialist can signifi cantly shorten the time to diagnosis of a rare occupational illness that is often manifested by non-specifi c symptoms.

extrapulmonary tuberculosis ; healthcare workerts ; occupational disease ; occupational medicine

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