title: [Pathogeny and treatment of 50 nasopharyngeal tuberculosis cases].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the clinical characters and treatment of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis, and to provide a scientific basis for improving clinical diagnosis of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical materials of 50 patients diagnosed as nasopharyngeal tuberculosis in Guangzhou Chest Hospital were reviewed and analyzed. All the 50 patients were given regular antituberculosis treatment with 3HRZS(E)/9HR(E) for one year, and were treated through nasal spray with combination medication of isoniazid, rifampicin and streptomycin injection solution for 3 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients were cured through regular antituberculosis treatment for one year, and no recrudescence cases were found in 2 years of follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nasopharyngeal tuberculosis is rare and the clinical manifestation is atypical. It is extremely easy to cause clinical misdiagnosis. A full understanding of the pathogenesis, timely clinical characters under nasopharyngoscope and histopathological examination results are the keys to diagnosis, and to giving regular antituberculosis treatment to obtain satisfactory curative effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou 510095, China. CHYANG1@scut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Yiluan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jian
authors.forename: Baoying
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lixia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Shaoyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Chunli
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009302:Nasopharyngeal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents