Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent and fatal infectious diseases in spite of considerable improvements in medical science. The diagnosis and treatment of extrapulmonary tuberculosis involving the abdomen is still complicated owing to vague or non-specific clinical features. Although rare, isolated splenic involvement is one of the important manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculo...

Genitourinary tuberculosis is a common extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis. Taking into consideration that genitourinary tuberculosis may be associated with a diversity of presentations, its diagnoses may be difficult. A young woman with an initial presumptive diagnosis of a uterine leiomyoma presented with abdominal pain and a pelvic mass that after further investigations, she was dia...

Tubercular spondylitis is a common extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis. It accounts for 50% skeletal tuberculosis.[1] In most cases, associated symptoms are not so unique as to immediately indicate the proper diagnosis. Differentiating spinal tuberculosis from pyogenic osteomyelitis often very difficult, and metastatic lesion systemic malignancy other major entity which must be differe...

This retrospective study was conducted at the National Tuberculosis Center (NTBC) where 252 HIV-positive patients coexisting with tuberculosis (TB/HIV) were examined. We found that patients with pulmonary (PTB) and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPT) had similar mean age. A higher sex ratio between male to female (10.7:1) was observed in patients with PTB. The other characteristics of patients wi...

AIMS To evaluate the usefulness of a single-tube nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in 1497 pulmonary and 536 extrapulmonary specimens. METHODS A single-tube nested PCR, utilising two sets of primers with different melting temperatures (88 degrees C for external primers; 70 degrees C for internal primers) to augment sensitivity and specificity withou...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is relatively common in reproductive age and thereby can be observed pregnancy. Some of the clinical presentations tuberculosis overlap with nonspecific symptoms that are found normal Therefore, delay diagnosis understandable. The aim our study to indicate related sanitary inadequacy crowding should considered every patient such circumstances. Case Presentation: This ...

Tuberculosis remains a global health problem, primarily in developing countries with inadequate health services. A significant portion of tuberculosis in these settings is extrapulmonary, including tuberculosis of the genitourinary tract. Patients with genital tuberculosis are usually young women detected during work up for infertility. After menopause, tuberculosis of the endometrium is a rare...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is currently one of the greatest problems in public health. mycobacterium tuberculosis infects about one third of the world's population, of whom more than 80% are living in developing countries. the incidence and prevalence of tb are very different in various parts of iran and also throughout the world. golestan province is one of the areas in the country where th...