Tuberculous Sinuitis

Abstract

Tuberculous manifestations in the nose are very unusual, but tuberculosis in the nasal sinuses is still more unusual: in the literature only little more than 30 cases of tuberculosis in sinus maxillaris are described, 20 of which prior to 1907. While this disease was previously progressive and very difficult to treat and disfigured the patient because of the highly mutilating operative procedures, it is now permissible to regard the prognosis as essentially improved, thanks to the available anti-tuberculosis preparations streptomycin, paraaminosalicylic acid (PAS) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INH). Only very few cases treated with these preparations have been reported until now; Oppenheim 1955 has described a case of this kind as healed over 3 years.