title: [Tuberculosis of peripheral lymph nodes (author's transl)].
abstract: The diagnosis and therapy of tuberculosis involving peripheral lymph nodes is discussed in a series of thirthy patients. Diagnosis is best made by both bacteriological and histologic study. Therapy is best effected by combining medical tuberculostatics with operative intervention. Epithelioid cell or proliferative forms of lymph node tuberculosis best respond to medical management.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004977:Ethambutol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007538:Isoniazid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012293:Rifampin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013307:Streptomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D004977:Ethambutol; D007538:Isoniazid; D012293:Rifampin; D013307:Streptomycin
vernacular_title: Zur peripheren Lymphknotentuberkulose