Fig 1.
Overview of the different nationwide registers used for patient identification and data extraction. All collected data relied on notification from the individual clinician(s) managing the patient.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) scores for tuberculous lymphadenitis patients in Denmark from 2007 through 2016.
Fig 2.
Incidence of tuberculous lymphadenitis.
A) Number of patients notified with tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLA) and all notified tuberculosis (TB) cases in the national TB register from 2007 through 2016, B) Corresponding incidence rates per 100,000 citizens and C) Overall ratio of TBLA/all TB and for immigrants and Danes respectively.
Fig 3.
Country and regions of origin.
A) The number of tuberculous lymphadenitis patients from the 15 most frequent countries of origin, B) Patient origin by WHO regions in percentages. Of notice, Somalia and the northern parts of Africa is by WHO included in the Eastern Mediterranean region [19]. Classification of countries by WHO regions is available in the S2 Table.
Table 2.
Treatment outcome and all-cause mortality data for patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis in Denmark from 2007 through 2016.