Chest wall tuberculosis symptoms?

summary

Tuberculosis of chest wall is the most common disease of chest wall, which may invade various tissues of chest wall. Common in young people under 30 years old, male more. Most patients have no obvious symptoms or mild pain. Abscess can break itself, the formation of chronic long-term disunion sinus, lesions are more common in the chest wall, chest wall next to the spine less. So what are the symptoms of chest wall tuberculosis? Let's talk about it.

Chest wall tuberculosis symptoms?

Systemic symptoms are not obvious, but there may be general tuberculosis infection of emaciation, fatigue, night sweats and low fever and other symptoms. Local signs showed different clinical manifestations and signs according to the pathological changes. In the early stage of the disease, it showed painless cold abscess with wave motion when pressing, but there was no redness, fever and tenderness on the surface of the abscess, and the abscess was not connected with the surface skin.

Purulent bacteria invade the abscess, leading to secondary purulent infection. At this time, the skin on the surface of the abscess appears redness, fever, swelling and tenderness, and may even be accompanied by acute inflammatory reaction of the whole body, accompanied by fever. Finally, the abscess breaks itself, forming a chronic sinus that does not heal for a long time, with long-term pus. Or drainage by incision. The pus was milky white bean dregs. After the formation of sinus, it can not be cured for a long time. The adjacent ribs or sternum of the abscess were compressed or eroded by the abscess, resulting in irregular bone defect.

X-ray examination is very helpful for the diagnosis of chest wall tuberculosis. It may show tuberculosis lesions of lung or pleura, destruction of ribs or sternum, and shadow of chest wall soft tissue. But costal cartilage lesions often can not be shown on X-ray. According to the history of pulmonary tuberculosis or pleural tuberculosis, it is not difficult to diagnose the local tumor of chest wall with tuberculosis poisoning symptoms.

matters needing attention

1. Strengthen health education to make young people understand the harm and infection mode of tuberculosis. Develop a good health habit of not spitting everywhere. The sputum of tuberculosis patients should be burned or disinfected with drugs. 2. Physical examination should be carried out regularly for teenagers to achieve early detection, early isolation and early treatment. In addition, it is necessary to vaccinate infants with BCG on time, so that the body can produce immunity and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis. 3. In case of low fever, night sweats, dry cough and bloody sputum, check in the hospital in time. After the diagnosis of tuberculosis, streptomycin, remifentanil and ethambutol should be used immediately. At the same time, we should also pay attention to increasing nutrition, in order to enhance the physique. As long as the discovery is timely and the treatment is thorough, the structural nuclear disease can be cured completely.