Case series of genital tuberculosis

Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a rare, comprising <0.5% cases of extrapulmonary TB. Among cases of genitourinary TB, glandular TB is even rarer. Its a diagnosis of exclusion. Most patients present later in the course of disease due to the associated stigma in view of site of involvement and the hes...

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Autores principales: Chhonkar, Aditi, Tambe, Swagata, Aswani, Yashant, Nayak, Chitra S.
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148275
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_3_17
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author Chhonkar, Aditi
Tambe, Swagata
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Nayak, Chitra S.
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description Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a rare, comprising <0.5% cases of extrapulmonary TB. Among cases of genitourinary TB, glandular TB is even rarer. Its a diagnosis of exclusion. Most patients present later in the course of disease due to the associated stigma in view of site of involvement and the hesitancy on the patients's part. We saw two such cases of nonhealing genital ulcers in immunocompetent males.
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spelling pubmed-60859302018-08-24 Case series of genital tuberculosis Chhonkar, Aditi Tambe, Swagata Aswani, Yashant Nayak, Chitra S. Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a rare, comprising <0.5% cases of extrapulmonary TB. Among cases of genitourinary TB, glandular TB is even rarer. Its a diagnosis of exclusion. Most patients present later in the course of disease due to the associated stigma in view of site of involvement and the hesitancy on the patients's part. We saw two such cases of nonhealing genital ulcers in immunocompetent males. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6085930/ /pubmed/30148275 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_3_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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