Abstract
1. Upon a total of 203 cases with bone and joint tuberculosis, culture test for tubercle bacilli in the urine was carried out at regular intervals over a long period of time, with the results that the bacilluria took place in 50 cases (24.6%). Cases with the bacilluria were found, at least microscopically, to accompany pyuria.
2. 32 cases with bacilluria were divided from the findings in the pyelograms into “ surgical renal tuberculosis” of 16 cases and “sub-clinical renal tuberculosis” of 16 cases.
3. Among 16 patients with surgical renal tuberculosis, four were judged as unilateral and six as bilateral by means of urological examinations, though these examinations were not performed in the remaining six cases.
4. Upon 15 of the 16 patients with subclinical renal tuberculosis (the remaining one died), observation of the occurrence of tuberculous bacilluria was continued over a period from 14 to 26 months, with the results that the urine remained constantly free from tubercle bacilli in eight, mostly negative and infrequently positive in five, and constantly negative in the remaining two patients.
5. In 18 of the 50 patients with tuberculous bacilluria an exact examination could not be made because of various reasons.
