THIS report deals with 92 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis treated with streptomycin in various amounts and over different lengths of time. In all cases the lesions were proved to be tuberculous by guinea-pig inoculation or x-ray study or both. No pulmonary activity was found except in 2 cases, in which an incipient pulmonary lesion was readily controlled by streptomycin. In the majority of these cases residua from previous pulmonary infection with tuberculosis could be demonstrated. In every case the intradermal tuberculin reaction was positive. Many of these patients had more than one tuberculous lesion, and 157 active lesions were present. . . .
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Kurt Jellinek (1949) studied this question.