Renal Tuberculosis: Has the Incidence of Advanced Lesions Decreased in the Past two Decades?

Destructive Forms of Renal Tuberculosis

“…For the present antibiotic era some authors tend towards conservative treatment even in the case of a non-functioning kidney. Siegel and Lattimer (1964) found that the percentage of advanced lesions did not increase.…”

New Aspects of Urinary Tuberculosis

“…Silent or symptom less at first, they lead to late diagnosis with an increasing percentage of early severe cases and more fibrotic lesions producing mechanical and functional disturbance. These forms more fre quently affect aged patients with decreased immu nological resistance (1,3,4,8,9,12,13,15,17).…”