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KMID : 0358819840110040557
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1984 Volume.11 No. 4 p.557 ~ p.559
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PRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS OF THE PAROTID GLAND
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Baek Se-Min
Yang Won-Yong
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Abstract
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There has been a dramatic decrease in the incidence of tuberculosis in Korea, as a result of changes in general public health and hygiene, with lessening of crowded living condition and improved nutritional status of general population. With marked decrease in its general incidence of tuberculosis, head and neck involvement gas become quite rare. As a consequence, clinicians are not considered the disease as a primary part of differential diagnosis, so that there are undoubtedly patients in whome proper diagnosis and therapy are delayed or the the diagnosis is missed entirely? This is particulary unfortunate since tuberculosis has become an completely treatable disease.
In this patient, any evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in chest radiography was not recognized and same results were results were obtained from intraoral cavity and regional lymphnode.
Here we report a case of primary tuberculosis of parotid gland in female patient. We confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis from the results through lesional biopsy at operation field and histopathologic examination.
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