background: tuberculous endometritis is often a diagnostic dilemma for gynecologists in the evaluation of infertility. this study evaluated and compared different diagnostic methods in tuberculous endometritis. methods: 100 infertile women were investigated for tuberculous endometritis. the endometrial samples obtained by curettage were evaluated by ziehl-neelsen (zn) staining of the smears for...

Ever since chemotherapy for tuberculosis became available endometrial tuberculosis has aroused increasing interest amongst gynaecologists. The diagnosis of this condition, and also the assessment of progress during therapy, depends largely on the pathological examination of curettings or biopsy specimens. The isolation and identification of the infecting organism provides definite confirmation ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous endometritis is often a diagnostic dilemma for gynecologists in the evaluation of infertility. This study evaluated and compared different diagnostic methods in tuberculous endometritis. METHODS 100 infertile women were investigated for tuberculous endometritis. The endometrial samples obtained by curettage were evaluated by Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining of the smears for...

it is generally accepted that tuberculous lesions are rarely found in the wall of the aorta. Wettland and Scott’ (1956) reported a case of tuberculous false aneurysm of the aorta with rupture into the bronchus. According to their study, tuberculous aortic perforation into the respiraLory tract had only occurred in four previously published cases. Prior’ (1955) also reported a case with tubercul...

Background and Objective: Infertility is a global health problem and in Pakistan frequency of subfertility is 21.9%. The fact that cyclical histological changes in the endometrium correlate with fluctuating biorhythms of various hormone levels enables histological appearance of the endometrium to be a reliable parameter to evaluate the cause of infertility. Objective: To discern the histologica...

Endometrial biopsy samples derived from 393 patients with assorted gynecological complaints were investigated for mycobacterial infection. By employment of four different techniques, mycobacterial pathogens were detected irrespective of the nature/type of clinical complaint. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the predominant pathogen detected among the samples investigated.