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KMID : 0365819830230020557
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Journal of Pusan Medical College
1983 Volume.23 No. 2 p.557 ~ p.562
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A Clinical Study of Scrofulas Oral and Maxillofacial Region
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Acid Fast Bacillus) is detected on any portion of human body. It is not seldom detected in oral and maxillofacial region. Specially Tuberculosis in cervical lymph nodes is called as Scrofula. Scrofula is mostly attached by secondary infection of pulmonary tuberculosis, but occasionally can caused by primary infection. Therfore, the author studied and analyzed 5 cases of Scrofula who admitted to our department of dentistry of Pusan National University Hospital from 1981. 1 to 1983. 9.
The results were as follows.
1. Scrofula mostly involved in two-decade women
2. Scrofula of which symptom is chiefly tenderness of swelling portion and could be found as multiple involvement at submandibular lymph nodes and superficial cervical lymph nodes.
3. In all Scrofula patient, erythrocyte sedimentation rate is above 30 mm.
4. Scrofula of which symptoms were not subsided after two weeks antibiotics administration, could be diagnosed finally by biopsy. and could be treated by antituberculo chemotherapy combined surgical intervention. Accordingly, We could accept satisfactory results through the our cases of Scrofula.
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