INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease, and the morbidity associated with it has major health implications. When tuberculosis affects the genital organs of young females, it has the devastating effect of causing irreversible damage to their fallopian tubes, resulting in a possible tubercular pyosalpinx and infertility. However, the disease often remains silent or presents wit...

BACKGROUND Genital tuberculosis (GTB) is an important cause of female infertility, especially in developing countries. The positive results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in endometrial GTB in the absence of tubal damage raise the possibility of the detection of sub-clinical or latent disease, with doubtful benefits of treatment. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the mycobacterium tuberculosis infect...

background: 95% of tuberculosis (tb) of the female genital tract (fgt) is located in tissues other than the cervix. a rare case of primary tb of the cervix which was diagnosed coincidently in a patient of endometrioma was reported in this study. case presentation: a 34 year old nullipara, a diagnosed case of endometrioma had a small cervical growth. pap smear and biopsy was taken and sent for h...

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