Genitourinary tuberculosis in a 54-year-old woman: diagnostic difficulty
CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, cilt.5, sa.5, ss.569-572, 2010 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 5 Sayı: 5
- Basım Tarihi: 2010
- Doi Numarası: 10.2478/s11536-010-0011-z
- Dergi Adı: CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.569-572
- Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
Genitourinary tuberculosis (GUTB) is an extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis seen in 1.2% of all cases of tuberculosis. The clinical case of a 54-year-old woman diagnosed with GUTB is presented. Cloudy urine, abdominal pain, and microscopic hematuria led us to investigate for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although cultures were negative, positive Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen (EZN) staining and a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) revealed the diagnosis of M. tuberculosis complex (MTC), which was confirmed by treatment success. It has been shown that PCR is a reliable and rapid method for establishing or supporting the diagnosis of tuberculosis and can be used in a routine diagnostic algorithm when conventional methods fail to identify MTC.