Enigma of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: Where Do We Stand?

Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health concern. Atypical extrapulmonary presentations may delay its diagnosis and treatment. The present study illustrates the importance of ruling out extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients presenting with nonspecific symptoms of abdominal diseases. Furtherm...

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Autores principales: Inayat, Faisal, Jafar, Munnam S, Ali, Nouman Safdar, Hussain, Qulsoom, Hurairah, Abu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021926
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1554
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author Inayat, Faisal
Jafar, Munnam S
Ali, Nouman Safdar
Hussain, Qulsoom
Hurairah, Abu
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description Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health concern. Atypical extrapulmonary presentations may delay its diagnosis and treatment. The present study illustrates the importance of ruling out extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients presenting with nonspecific symptoms of abdominal diseases. Furthermore, we discuss the variety of clinical presentations, diagnostic challenges, current therapeutic protocols, and prognostic factors associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Early diagnosis and effective treatment may decrease morbidity and mortality in such patients.
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spelling pubmed-56332622017-10-11 Enigma of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: Where Do We Stand? Inayat, Faisal Jafar, Munnam S Ali, Nouman Safdar Hussain, Qulsoom Hurairah, Abu Cureus Public Health Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health concern. Atypical extrapulmonary presentations may delay its diagnosis and treatment. The present study illustrates the importance of ruling out extrapulmonary tuberculosis in patients presenting with nonspecific symptoms of abdominal diseases. Furthermore, we discuss the variety of clinical presentations, diagnostic challenges, current therapeutic protocols, and prognostic factors associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Early diagnosis and effective treatment may decrease morbidity and mortality in such patients. Cureus 2017-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5633262/ /pubmed/29021926 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1554 Text en Copyright © 2017, Inayat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Inayat, Faisal
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title_short Enigma of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: Where Do We Stand?
title_sort enigma of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: where do we stand?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5633262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29021926
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1554
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