BACKGROUND Diagnosis of tuberculous serositis remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of T-SPOT.TB on serous effusion mononuclear cells (SEMC) for diagnosing tuberculous serositis in a high TB burden area. METHODS The present prospective study enrolled patients with suspected tuberculous serositis in a tertiary referral hospital in Beijing, China, ...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculous otitis is a diagnostic problem due to the difficulty to obtain microbiological, histomorphological and cytological confirmation of the disease. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to compare clinical and radiological characteristic and development of otogenic complications in patients with tuberculous otitis and otitis with cholesteatoma as the most destructive form of chroni...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous epididymitis is one of the causes of chronic epididymal lesions. It is difficult to diagnose in the absence of renal involvement. AIM To profile isolated tuberculous epididymitis and to assess our approach in the evaluation of this group of patients. SETTING AND DESIGN Retrospective study done at Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India. METHODS AND MATERIALS...

Metastatic tuberculous abscesses or cutaneous tuberculous gummas occur mostly by reactivation of ancient cutaneous foci and is triggered mainly by pharmacological immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus, alcoholism or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The present case report refers to a 33-year-old male patient with polymyositis and a previous diagnosis of treated pulmonary tuberculosis. He pres...

The author presents a young patient presenting with lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to tuberculous appendicitis. Though an ileo-cecal region is the most frequent site of involvement of the intestinal tuberculosis, vermiform appendix involvement is rare. Moreover, intestinal tuberculosis is an uncommon cause of lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Therefore, bleeding from tuberculous appendi...

Tuberculous bacilluria in patients with extrarenal tuberculosis has been investigated by many foreign workers, who report higher incidences of tuberculous bacilluria especially among patients suffering from bone and joint tuberculosis. Literature in this field is scanty in Japan. Recently I have made examinations for tuberculous bacilluria on 203 patients with bone and joint tuberculosis at the...

Brain abscess is an extremely rare manifestation of tuberculous involvement of the CNS; meningitis and tuberculoma are much more common [1-6]. The CT appearance of tuberculous abscess cannot be distinguished from many other entities that can present as a ring-enhancing lesion, such as pyogenic abscess, primary or metastatic neoplasm, or resolving hematoma. However, given the appropriate history...

Kwonjune Seung and colleagues describe the Eugene Bell Foundation's experience of treating MDR-TB in North Korea.

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