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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 39(8); 1996 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1996;39(8): 1346-51.
Primary Tuberculous Retropharyngeal Abscess in Pregnant Woman
Young Hak Park, MD, Hyoung Tae Kim, MD, Han Jong Park, MD, and Soo Whan Kim, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, Medical College, Catholic University, Seoul, Korea
임산부에 발생한 원발성 결핵성 인후농양 1례
박영학 · 김형태 · 박한종 · 김수환
가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
ABSTRACT

Retropharyngeal abscess commonly develops in children but rarely in adults. Even though it develop in adults, its cause is mainly direct trauma. Tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess develops mainly as a result of cervical vertebral osteomyelitis. Primary tuberculous retrophryngeal abscess in adults is very rare. Pregnancy is not a predisposing condition for the development or progression of tuberculosis. The impact of pregnancy of TB apears minimal except for potentially obscuring the diagnosis and possibly increasing the risk of TB activation during the postpartum period. We report a case of primary tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess without cervical osteomyelitis which developed in pregnant woman, whose medical history had no pulmonary tuberculosis.

Keywords: Retropharyngeal abscessTuberculosisPregnancy.
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