The larynx in pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis is still a common disease in the developing countries of the world. One hundred patients with pulmonary tuberculosis showed laryngeal involvement in 37 patients. The posterior part of the larynx followed by the epiglottis are the commonest sites to be involved in the larynx. Ulcerative lesions and perichondritis, so common in pre-chemotherapeutic days, were not seen.