Three Cases of Renal Tuberculosis in children. |
Young Hwa Joung, Kyoung Soo Kim, Sung Won Kang, Kyu Hong Cho, Byung Churl Lee |
Department of Pediatrics,Catholic Medical College,Seoul,Korea |
소아 신결핵 3례 |
정영화, 김경수, 강승원, 조규홍, 이병철 |
가톨릭의과대학 소아과학교실 |
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Abstract |
Kidney tuberculosis is serious complication during childhood just as later life because the disease tends to invade and to destroy both kidney. We reported three cases of renal tuberculosis in 8-yr-old female, 10-yr-old female and 6- yr-old male child. Case 1 and 3 had complaints of continuous fever and poor appetite and case 2 had complaints of dysuria and urinary frequency. The diagnosis was confirmed by symptoms, Mantoux reaction, chest x-ray, Ziehl-Neelson staining of urinary sediment and intravenous pyelogram. A brief review of literatures was presented.
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Key Words:
Renal tuberculosis |
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