Recent incidence of urinary tuberculosis: A review.
10.2185/jjrm.39.111
- VernacularTitle:小郡第一総合病院泌尿器科における尿路結核症の再検討
- Author:
Hiroshi TAKIHARA
;
Takuya UENO
;
Kazutaka JOJIMA
;
Keiji JOKO
;
Sugashi NAKAYAMA
;
Jisaburo SAKATOKU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1990;39(2):111-114
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Between January 1986 and August 1989, four patients, whose urinary tuberculous cultures were positive, were treated in our hospital. They represented 0.66% of the total number of the new patiants who visited the outpatient department during this period. Also during the same period, two other patiants with unilateral old renal tuberculosis underwent nephrectomy.
Since the middle of this century, the development of chemotherapy has decreased the number of the patiants with urinary tuberculosis. However, there has been little decrease in recent several years, and our report supports this evidence. So, the possibility of urinary tuberculosis cannot be made light of in the urological examination, especially for the patiants with refractory urinary tract infection.
