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KMID : 0357919750090010103
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Korean Journal of Pathology
1975 Volume.9 No. 1 p.103 ~ p.106
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Two Cases of Tuberculous Appendictis
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김춘원(金春元)/Choon Won Kim
이계숙(李季淑)/김기홍(金箕洪)/Kye Sook Lee/Ki Hong Kim
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis in Korea is one of the prevalent infectious disease, but they have been
reported only infrequently in appendix. It was first described histopathologically by
Corbin in 1837. Tuberculosis involves the appendix as three ways; hematogenous,
ingestion and direct dissemiated from adjacent tissue, but the symptoms and signs of
appendicitis is mild or absent, nevertheless, case of tuberculous ·appendicitis is rarely
founded in surgical pathology. The authors are presenting two cases of tuberculous
appendicitis at Han Yang University Hospital recently.
The patient was 34 years old female and admitted with complaint of ovarian tumor on
right side without having tuberculous in the body, and 21 years told female patient
admitted with mesenteric tuberculosis, respectively. Both of them had an operation of
incidental appendectomy, otherwise the patients had no signs or symptoms of
appendicitis.
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