title: [Surgical management of non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis and tuberculosis of the lung].
abstract: From 1990 to 1999, three patients with non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis and 14 patients of tuberculosis underwent pulmonary resection in the National Sanatorium Ehime Hospital. Of the patients with tuberculosis, two were multiple drug-resistant cases and twelve cases were suspected of lung cancer before diagnostic resection. All three patients with non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis were symptomatic, had chest cavities in the lung, and were sputum-culture positive. There were no operative death in all patients, and one case of post-operative complication. Two patients, one with non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis and another with tuberculosis, failed in sputum negative conversion. The former had been treated for a long time preoperatively. Early resection in patients of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis and of pulmonary multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis is recommended to prevent further progression of pulmonary lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery II, School of Medicine, Ehime University, Shizugawa, Onsen-gun, Ehime 791-0295, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirayama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Imachi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000601:surgery*; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000601:surgery; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents