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Tuberculosis, Genitourinary Tract: Follow-up

Author: Ali Nawaz Khan, MBBS, FRCS, FRCP, FRCR, LRCP, Chairman of Medical Imaging, Professor of Radiology, NGHA, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Coauthor(s): Muthusamy Chandramohan, MBBS, DMRD, FRCR, Consultant Radiologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, UK; Sumaira MacDonald, MBChB, PhD, MRCP, FRCR, Lecturer, Sheffield University Medical School; Endovascular Fellow, Sheffield Vascular Institute
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Updated: Sep 17, 2008

Intervention

Most women with genital tuberculosis present with infertility, because the fallopian tubes are affected in 94% of these patients.14  Selective salpingography and fallopian tube recanalization may be attempted after adequate treatment of genital tuberculosis, to diagnose and treat tubal infertility.

Patient Education: For excellent patient education resources, visit eMedicine's Bacterial and Viral Infections Center, Men's Health Center, and Women's Health Center. Also, see eMedicine's patient education article Tuberculosis.

Medicolegal Pitfalls

  • Diagnosis of genitourinary tract tuberculosis is important to the radiologist, because the disease is treatable. The possibility of the diagnosis should always be kept in mind, because clinical and radiologic manifestations are varied and may be nonspecific.
 


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Further Reading

Related eMedicine topics

 Lung, Postprimary Tuberculosis

Lung, Primary Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis [Emergency Medicine]

Tuberculosis [Infectious Diseases]

Tuberculosis [Ophthalmology]

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Keywords

GU TB, TB of the genitourinary tract, GU tract tuberculosis, GU tract TB, renal tuberculous infection, TB of the kidneys, genital TB, renal tuberculosis, lower urinary tract tuberculosis, renal TB, genital tuberculosis, ureteric tuberculosis, ureteral tuberculosis, bladder tuberculosis, seminal vesicle tuberculosis, prostate tuberculosis, urogenital tuberculosis

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Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Ali Nawaz Khan, MBBS, FRCS, FRCP, FRCR, LRCP, Chairman of Medical Imaging, Professor of Radiology, NGHA, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ali Nawaz Khan, MBBS, FRCS, FRCP, FRCR, LRCP is a member of the following medical societies: American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Radiological Society of North America, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United States, Royal College of Radiologists, and Royal College of Surgeons of England
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Coauthor(s)

Muthusamy Chandramohan, MBBS, DMRD, FRCR, Consultant Radiologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, UK
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Sumaira MacDonald, MBChB, PhD, MRCP, FRCR, Lecturer, Sheffield University Medical School; Endovascular Fellow, Sheffield Vascular Institute
Sumaira MacDonald, MBChB, PhD, MRCP, FRCR is a member of the following medical societies: British Medical Association, Royal College of Physicians, and Royal College of Radiologists
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Pharmacy Editor

Bernard D Coombs, MB, ChB, PhD, Consulting Staff, Department of Specialist Rehabilitation Services, Hutt Valley District Health Board, New Zealand
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Managing Editor

Joshua A Becker, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine
Joshua A Becker, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Society of Uroradiology
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

CME Editor

Robert M Krasny, MD, Consulting Staff, Department of Radiology, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute
Robert M Krasny, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Roentgen Ray Society and Radiological Society of North America
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Chief Editor

Eugene C Lin, MD, Consulting Radiologist, Virginia Mason Medical Center; Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine
Eugene C Lin, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Nuclear Medicine, American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, and Society of Nuclear Medicine
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