Tuberculosis (TB) affects millions of people globally every year. Although TB is predominantly a lung infection, it can affect almost any organ system in the body. Therefore, presentation be highly variable. Extrapulmonary accounts for up to 25% all reported cases, and lymphoreticular genitourinary systems are most frequently affected. However, male genital infection rare phenomenon. A clear ma...

Although congenital tuberculosis (TB) is rare, it associated with a high mortality rate. The infection mainly acquired transplacentally and less frequently from infective lesions on the maternal genital tract. Many cases are missed in clinical practice due to non-specific presentation of disease hence tendency either miss diagnosis or make late. We report an infant 32-year-old mother who was tr...

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...

Incidence of tuberculosis and pregnancy The occurrence of pregnancy in patients with tuberculosis is increasing in developed countries as a result of changes in the case mix and age distribution of cases of tuberculosis, with an increasing proportion coming from ethnic minority groups. In 1988 over 50% of cases in England and Wales were in the white ethnic group. Most of the white women were ag...

The prevalence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) has been increasing over the past decade, due to the rising number of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and the development of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The genitourinary tract is the most common site of extrapulmonary TB. Diagnosis is often difficult because TB has a variety of clinical an...

The primary carcinoma of fallopian tube is a rare entity. It represents 0.14 to 1.81% of genital cancers in women. It is a cancer of older women. Its association with tuberculosis is exceptional. We report a rare case of bilateral serous adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube in a patient aged 42 years, multiparous, whose characteristic is the unexpected association with peritoneal tuberculosis. ...

BACKGROUND Dramatic worsening of epidemiological situation with tuberculosis (TB) in the world has made extra-pulmonary tuberculosis actual again. Female genital TB is very rare, but each case still remains a serious medical problem. CASE REPORT A 23-year-old human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seronegative woman with two-month duration amenorrhea underwent surgery due to lower abdominal mass ...

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...

Background: Female genital tuberculosis (FGTB) is known to cause severe tubal disease leading infertility and its incidence closely parallels with the overall prevalence of (TB) in a community. Objectives study: To study endometrial among subjects undergoing biopsy. Materials Methods: Demographic data regarding age, Socioeconomic status based on Modified Kuppuswamy scale, menstrual pattern, typ...