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Urogenital tuberculosis: update and review of 8961 cases from the world literature
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Data point to a correlation of the timing of diagnosis with the severity of urogenital tuberculosis, and a systematic search for urogenITAL tuberculosis, regardless of symptoms, is warranted for early detection.Abstract:
The AIDS epidemic caused unexpected worldwide levels of tuberculosis, even in developed countries where the incidence used to be low. Patients with urogenital tuberculosis in developed countries have fewer specific symptoms and lower rates of delayed diagnoses compared with patients from other countries. As a result, the disease tends to be less serious, with more patients presenting without significant lesions of the upper urinary tract on diagnosis. These data point to a correlation of the timing of diagnosis with the severity of urogenital tuberculosis. A systematic search for urogenital tuberculosis, regardless of symptoms, is warranted for early detection.read more
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John P. Pryor,William F. Hendry +1 more
TL;DR: Routine vasography has shown that ejaculatory duct obstruction is not as rare as previously thought and the diagnosis should not be missed because the condition is simple to correct surgically in certain cases.
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TL;DR: The evidence from the series is that infectivity of genitourinary tuberculosis is low and there was only 1 initial treatment failure, in a 47-year old man with active pulmonary and renal tuberculosis caused by an isoniazid-resistant organism.