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구개편도에 발생한 결핵 1례

박시영1, 이종환1, 구수권1, 이상화1
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

© Copyright 1997 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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