The aims of the study was to determine drug resistance rates in 30 tuberculosis patients previously have been treated with streptomycin (SM), isoniazide (INH), ethabutol (E) and rifampicin (R) in Pirngadi Hospital, Medan. Ninety-six percent of these patients showed resistance to one or more of the following 4 drugs SM, INH, E and RF. Resistance to E was encountered most (83.33 percent), followe…
Pharyngeal tuberculosis is a rarely diagnosed case or it is frequently ignored and confused with other diseases such as midline granuloma fungal infections. Pharyngeal tuberculosis generally follows
Tuberculosis of the larynx-pharynx-tonsil are almost always secondary to an active pulmonary tuberculosis. A case of tuberculosis of the larynx-pharynx-tonsil has been reported. The biopsy revealed the tubercles and Langhans cell only from the larynx specimen. But with the tripple drugs of the antituberculosis, all the complaints and lesions in larynx-pharynx-tonsil showed a rapid and excellent…