Genital Tuberculosis Presenting as Primary Amenorrhoea

Female genital tract tuberculosis presenting as ovarian cancer

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major worldwide concern. There is no pathognomonic clinical feature or imaging findings for definite diagnosis of extra pulmonary TB. Therefore, TB involvement of Gastrointestinal or Genitourinary tract can be easily confused with peritoneal carcinomatosis and advanced ovarian carcinoma. Our aim is to emphasize the importance of considering the disease ba...

Tuberculosis Endometritis Presenting as A Leiomyoma

Thyroid Tuberculosis Presenting as a Cystic Nodule

Although tuberculosis involves every organ and has a wide range of clinical manifestation, however involvement of the thyroid gland is rare. We report a case of a 25-yr-old female with supraclavicular lymphadenitis that developed nodular swelling of the thyroid and had symptoms and sonographic features mimicking a nodule with a cystic component. The diagnosis was made by using fine needle aspir...

Genital Tuberculosis

عفونت سلی دستگاه تناسلی بعلت مایکوباکتریوم توبرکلوزیس تقریبا همیشه ثانویه به ضایعه اولیه، (جای دیگر معمولا در ریه ها) است. علی رغم اینکه سل لگنی در کشورهای پیشرفته نادر می باشد، امکان آن را باید در افراد مهاجر، مناطق فقیرنشین و بیمارانی که در محیط های شلوغ و با فقر بهداشت زندگی می کنند در نظر داشت . میزان شیوع سل لگنی بسته به محل انجام بررسی آماری متفاوت است. بطور مثال، در بیماران نازای هندی، ...

Primary hypothyroidism presenting as amenorrhoea and galactorrhoea with hyperprolactinaemia and pituitary enlargement.

The combination of amenorrhoea, galactorrhoea, and hyper-prolactinaemia in a young woman usually suggests that she has a prolactin secreting adenoma of the anterior pituitary gland. Primary autoimmune thyroid failure, however, is common in young women and may also be associated with hyperprolactinaemia and with galactorrhoea in those whose breasts have been exposed to oestrogen. Hypothyroidism ...