A Case of Tuberculosis of the Palatine Tonsil

Park, Si Young; Lee, Jong Hwan; Koo, Soo Kweon; Lee, Sang Hwa

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.154

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1997; 8(1):154-157

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.154

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박시영¹, 이종환¹, 구수권¹, 이상화¹

A Case of Tuberculosis of the Palatine Tonsil

Si Young Park¹, Jong Hwan Lee¹, Soo Kweon Koo¹, Sang Hwa Lee¹

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¹부산 성분도병원 이비인후과

¹Department of Otolaryngology, Saint Benedict Hospital，Pusan, Korea

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Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis of tonsil was relatively uncommon disease in the past, but it has become rare disease with the advent of effective antituberculous chemotherapy. We have recently seen a case of tuberculosis of the palatine tonsil which was thought to had developed secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis. We present the one case of the tuberculosis of the palatine tonsil with literature reviews.

Keywords: Tuberculosis; Tonsil

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