title: [Cleaning cavity operation in treating relapse bacillary cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the effective surgical way for serious relapse multidrug resistant bacillary cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  104 cases of serious relapse multidrug resistant bacillary cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis were cured by cleaning cavity operation from 1981 to 1998. The operation contained resecting the back rib covering the cavity, separating the intercostal tissue, cutting the external wall of the cavity, cleaning the cavity thoroughly, scraping the cavity till exposing the fresh tissue, killing the tuberculosis germs with organic acid, filling the cavity with the intercostal muscle, fixing and suturing the muscles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 104 cases, 103 cases (99.0%) were cured, 101 cases (98.1%) were cured after the first operation, one case (1.0%) became better. Among the 98 cases followed up, the rate of returning to work were 96%, no one died or relapsed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The design of cleaning cavity operation is reasonable and it is the effective method to treat the relapse bacillary cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis, the rate of cure and sputum conversion are promising.
authors.affiliation: Changchun Tuberculosis Hospital, Changchun 130062.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000601:surgery*