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KMID : 0360119950170040456
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Journal of the Korean Society of Maxillofacial Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons
1995 Volume.17 No. 4 p.456 ~ p.461
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A case report of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis on submandibular area
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이승호
김창룡/박문성/김영운/정승룡/이종호/류선열
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis, a chronic infectious granulomatous disease, is presumed to be quite a rare entity. Because of the development of chemotherapy and the improvement of nutritional conditions, incidence of tuberculosis have reduced. For these reasons,
tuberculosis may be overlooked in the differential diagnosis whenever dealing with a submandibular swelling.
Diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis consists of historical data, physical findings, laboratory tests and histologic examination. The treatment of choice seems to be surgical excision and long term antituberculosis chemotherapy. Surgery
provides
a
rapid tissue diagnosis, because the histological examination of the excisional biopsy is the most reliable diagnositc test.
This is the report of a case of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis on left submandibular area with no evidence of the involvement of lung.
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