Resumen

BARBOZA QUIROS, Martín. Tuberculosis miliar en una privada de libertad: presentación de un caso y revisión del tema. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.177-182. ISSN 2215-5287.

The tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known by mankind and one of the main causes of death around the world. It is estimated that approximately one third of the world population has been infected by this bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, whose organ target is the lung, however it is described that even in one third of the cases can be affectation of other organs. One of the special forms of presentation of this pathology is the so-called miliary tuberculosis, which can be pulmonary or extrapulmonary. In this article we describe the case of a woman prisoner whose autopsy was performed in the Forensic Pathology Section of the Legal Medicine Department of Costa Rica.

Palabras clave : Tuberculosis; miliary tuberculosis; primary tuberculosis; post-primary tuberculosis; extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

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