Ear tuberculosis: Clinical and surgical treatment

Summary Two main points are discussed in this paper: • First, the changing picture of the clinical process of tuberculosis, and • second, various diagnostic problems caused by extra-pulmonary forms. We have analysed a case of ear tuberculosis in a child, and drawn the following conclusions: • Directed chemotherapy is the primary method of treatment, and • surgical methods should be used to provide tissue for bacteriological and histopathological analysis, to enable an early diagnosis during the first stage of the disease, and in other atypical cases.