Isolated Parotid Gland Tuberculosis in Pediatric Age Group- A Rare Entity

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease which is commonly prevalent in the developing countries. Still parotid gland involvement in the disease process is an uncommon phenomenon that too in pediatric population. In this study the authors are reporting a single case of parotid tuberculosis is a 3-year-old male child who presented with complaints of unilateral parotid region swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology from the swelling site was done which confirmed tuberculosis, Ziehl-Neilson staining also showed positive results. However, there was no pulmonary involvement which was ruled out by doing chest X-Ray. Magnetic resonance imaging was also performed. Post diagnosis patient was started on four drug regimen antitubercular therapy.