Female genital tuberculosis is an uncommon cause of infertility in our environment and is hardly looked for as part of routine assessment of infertility. With a resurging incidence of Tuberculosis in the face of the HIV pandemic, it is important to always have genital tuberculosis in mind especially when no other cause is found for the infertility. We report a case of a patient with 15 years in...

Genital tract tuberculosis is usually secondary to extragenital tuberculosis. The upper genital tract is usually involved; involvement of cervix and vulva is very uncommon. We present two such rare cases of vulval and cervical tuberculosis diagnosed on histopathology and treated with antitubercular chemotherapy.

Genital tuberculosis of women is part of extra pulmonary forms of tuberculosis. It is an uncommon disease in developed countries, but remains endemic in developing countries. The causative agent is, in most cases, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Genital tuberculosis is a cause of infertility. The definitive diagnosis is made by biology or histology. Because this affection is paucibacillary, these t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical presentation of genital tuberculosis and to study various modes of diagnosis and treatment. SETTING The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi. METHOD A retrospective case review of all index female cases of genital tuberculosis, admitted to AKUH over twelve years of period. RESULT A total of 40 cases of genital tuberculosis were reported during this...

A retrospective analysis of the case records of patients attending the University Hospital, Tabriz, showed that over a period of 16 months, 91 patients consulted for treatment of infertility. Genital tuberculosis was diagnosed at laparotomy and confirmed histopathologically in 21(23.08%) of these patients. Genital tuberculosis is rare in Western Europe and U.S.A. but is still an important facto...

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...