Urogenital Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Therapy

• Main Author: Kulchavenya, Ekaterina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Medical microbiology.; Urology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Human Physiology.

Many years ago the famous Russian TB-urologist professor Vilghelm Grund called Urogenital Tuberculosis (UGTB) a “great hoaxer”, and until today UGTB is an unsolved problem. Clinical features of UGTB are flexible and variable, UGTB mimics numerous other diseases that result in delayed diagnosis. This...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Epidemiology of Urogenital Tuberculosis as a part of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
• Classification of Urogenital Tuberculosis
• Clinical features of Urogenital Tuberculosis
• Diagnostic of Urogenital Tuberculosis
• Predisposition, Pathogenesis and Prophylaxis
• Bladder tuberculosis
• Male genital tuberculosis
• Therapy of Urogenital Tuberculosis
• Surgery of Urogenital Tuberculosis
• Acknowledgments
• References.