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KMID : 0358819840110040561
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1984 Volume.11 No. 4 p.561 ~ p.564
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PRIMARY TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS OF THE ZYGOMATIC BONE
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Park Byung-Il
Yang Won-Yong
Baek Se-Min
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Tuberculous osteomyelitis of the zygomatic bone is rare Mukhopadhya did not find single case of facial bone in his series of 941 cases of skeletal tuberculosis.
Tuli and Sinha in a similar series of 1,074 cases reported only five cases. Most of them are secondary infection; The primary foci are lung, kidney, pelves etc. In this patient a any evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in chest radiography was not recognized and same results were obtained from the other areas known as the frequent primary sites. Strauss recorded a few cases in which no active focus was found and these were designated as cases of "primary skull tuberculosis".
Here we report a case of primary tuberculous osteomyelitis of zygomatic bone in a female patient. We confirmed the diagnosis of primary tuberculous osteomylitis of the zygomatic bone from the results through lesional biopsy at operation field and histopathologic examination
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