BACKGROUND Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome or acute perihepatitis is considered a rare complication of pelvic inflammatory disease, mostly associated with chlamydial or gonococcal salpingitis. Peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare site of extra-pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection usually occurs after reactivation of latent tuberculous foci in the peritoneum and more seldom...

Methods A prospective case-control study was undertaken. A total of 302 endo-ovarian tissue biopsies collected from 202 infertile women highly suspected of having genital tuberculosis on laparoscopic examination and from 100 control women of reproductive age. All specimens tested by conventional/phenotypic methods were later compared with multi-gene/ multi-primer PCR method using four sets of p...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is an increasing public health concern worldwide. On a global scale it has a devastating impact in developing nations. Genital TB, an extrapulmonary form, is not uncommon particularly in areas where pulmonary TB is prevalent. Genital TB may be asymptomatic or may even masquerade as other gynaecological conditions; hence, diagnosis requires a high degree of suspicion...

Cervical tuberculosis accounts for 0.1–0.65 % of all cases of tuberculosis (TB) [1]. Although TB more frequently affects the fallopian tubes and endometrium [2], TB of the cervix is present in about 5–24 % of all TB cases of the genital tract [1]. Cervical TB is usually not suspected clinically and, in a post-menopausal woman, it may simulate carcinoma. In this article, we present a case of cer...

Introduction. Everywhere there is a weighting of the structure urogenital tuberculosis. Tuberculosis testis and its epididymis difficult to diagnose because it does not have pathognomonic symptoms; diagnosis cannot be verified microbiologically in study ejaculate or prostate secretion, however, possible detect pathogen biopsy specimens surgical material. Materials methods. Search results were a...

Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive by at least one year of unprotected intercourse. Treatment may be started earlier in case of an obvious cause or advanced age of the couple. Genital tuberculosis is an important cause of subfertility, more so in endemic zones such as South India. Still, the true epidemiology of this disease remains unknown due to lack of highly sensitive and s...