Rare Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Immunocompetent Adults: Experience of a Tertiary Hospital
Sinem Güngör, Özlem Soğukpınar, Murat Yalçınsoy, Bilgen Begüm Afşar Dönmez, Olga Akkan, Esra Akkütük Öngel, Esra Usta Bülbül, Esen Akkaya
European Archives of Medical Research · 2019-09
Abstract
Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection that can involve all tissues and organs. Although pulmonary TB (PTB) is more common, extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) is still a major clinical problem. The incidence of EPTB is 35.1% and in recent years; there has been an increase in EPTB case reporting in our country. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the clinical and laboratory characteristics of rare EPTB cases.
MeSH terms
- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tertiary care
- Medicine