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Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation

Genitourinary tuberculosis is one of the common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report a case of atypical genitourinary tuberculosis: massive uterovaginal prolapse with cervical lesion mimicking cervical carcinoma. This particular case highlights the problem of healthcare in most of the dev...

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Autores principales: Lim, Pei Shan, Atan, Ixora Kamisan, Naidu, Aruku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23320216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/727146
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description Genitourinary tuberculosis is one of the common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report a case of atypical genitourinary tuberculosis: massive uterovaginal prolapse with cervical lesion mimicking cervical carcinoma. This particular case highlights the problem of healthcare in most of the developing countries. Lack of patient education, awareness, and access to a healthcare system resulted in a complicated situation. In an endemic area or in an immunocompromised individual, a higher index of suspicion would allow early recognition and treatment institution to minimise its late consequences as well as spreading of the disease. Though anti-TB is the mainstay of treatment, surgical intervention might be needed in selected cases.
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spelling pubmed-35357392013-01-14 Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation Lim, Pei Shan Atan, Ixora Kamisan Naidu, Aruku Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Genitourinary tuberculosis is one of the common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report a case of atypical genitourinary tuberculosis: massive uterovaginal prolapse with cervical lesion mimicking cervical carcinoma. This particular case highlights the problem of healthcare in most of the developing countries. Lack of patient education, awareness, and access to a healthcare system resulted in a complicated situation. In an endemic area or in an immunocompromised individual, a higher index of suspicion would allow early recognition and treatment institution to minimise its late consequences as well as spreading of the disease. Though anti-TB is the mainstay of treatment, surgical intervention might be needed in selected cases. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3535739/ /pubmed/23320216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/727146 Text en Copyright © 2012 Pei Shan Lim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lim, Pei Shan
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Naidu, Aruku
Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation
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title_full Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation
title_fullStr Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation
title_short Genitourinary Tuberculosis: An Atypical Clinical Presentation
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23320216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/727146
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