A Case of Tongue Tuberculosis with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
- Author:
Ki Rang KIM
;
Min Gu KIM
;
So Young CHOI
;
Yong Seop LEE
;
Maeng Ryoul CHUN
;
Jung Woo SHIM
;
Sang Gab LEE
;
Heung Up KIM
;
Se Ho CHANG
;
Young Sil HWANG
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Tongue tuberculosis;
Pulmonary tuberculosis
- MeSH:
Humans;
Incidence;
Lung Diseases;
Mouth;
Mouth Mucosa;
Tongue*;
Tuberculosis*;
Tuberculosis, Oral;
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary*
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
1997;53(5):727-730
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Up to 1937, 357 cases of tongue tuberculosis had been reported. However, Since potent antituberculosis drugs had been introduced, the incidence of oral tuberculosis lesions has been dramatically decreased. This might be related to the marked vascularity of the tongue which enables a high concentration of the drug to be reached to the lesion. Both the primary and secondary types of tuberculosis can be revealed in the oral cavity. In the primary type, the causative organisms are directly inoculated in the oral mucosa of a person who has never been tuberculosis earlier and who has not acquired an immunity to the disease, In the secondary type, tuberculosis of the oral cavity is coexistent with pulmonary disease. We report a case of tongue tuberculosis with pulmonary tuberculosis, with a review of literature.
