All issues > Volume 28(9); 1985

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1985;28(9):916-921. Published online September 30, 1985.

Three Cases of Renal Tuberculosis in children.

Young Hwa Joung, Kyoung Soo Kim, Sung Won Kang, Kyu Hong Cho, Byung Churl Lee

¹Department of Pediatrics,Catholic Medical College,Seoul,Korea

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.

Keywords :Renal tuberculosis