title: [Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in 3 Dutch patients].
abstract: In three patients, two women aged 71 and 59 years and a man aged 49 who had been living in the Netherlands for a long time and who were admitted because of vague symptoms, extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis were diagnosed: tuberculosis of the lumbar spine with psoas abscess, tuberculous peritonitis and adrenal tuberculosis with Addison's disease in a patient with open pulmonary tuberculosis. All three recovered with tuberculostatic therapy (isoniazid, streptomycin, pyrazinamide and rifampicin).
mesh_terms: D000224:Addison Disease / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D001201:Ascites / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014395:Peritonitis, Tuberculous / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016659:Psoas Abscess / Q000382:microbiology; D014383:Tuberculosis, Endocrine / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Extrapulmonale tuberculose bij drie Nederlandse patiënten.