• 1. Xinjiang Clinical Medical College, Anhui Medical University, Urumqi, 830000, P.R.China;
  • 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xingjiang Autonomous Region People’s Hospital, Urumqi, 830000, P.R.China;
  • 3. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Chest Hospital, Urumqi, 830000, P.R.China;
ZHONG Yi, Email: 1348298839@qq.com; MA Jinshan, Email: xjmajinshan@sina.com
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Chest wall tuberculosis is a common extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, which often occurs in lung or pleura tuberculosis, or coexists with tuberculosis in other parts. The final manifestation of the disease is cold abscess on the chest wall, chronic sinuses with repeated exudation after the abscess is broken. At present, There were a series of problems in the diagnosis, treatment, and extremely prognosis of tuberculosis of the chest wall. Therefore, we reviewed the diagnosis of chest wall tuberculosis, including B-ultrasound, chest CT and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), tuberculous infectin of T cells spot test (T-SPOT TB), pathological examination. The related treatments including medical treatment, surgical treatment and other local treatment in order to better understand the chest wall tuberculosis.

Citation: ZHONG Yi, LU Xingshi, CHEN Kang, MA Jinshan. Research status of surgical diagnosis and treatment of chest wall tuberculosis. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2019, 26(9): 926-932. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.201811057 Copy

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