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Diagnostic of Urogenital Tuberculosis

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Diagnosis of EPTB and, particularly, UGTB in-time is very difficult task, as the disease has no specific features or laboratory findings, excluding Mtb identification – and in some cases it is impossible to reveal Mtb. So diagnosis should be as result of complex measures. Very simple and cheep things – like careful study of epidemic history and 3-glass test of urinalysis – may be helpful in diagnostic of UGTB. An otherwise expensive and time-consumpting examination is necessary for correct diagnosis – including bacteriology, pathohistology, biopsies, provocative tests etc. We recommend following detailed algorithm in difficult cases.

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Kulchavenya, E. (2014). Diagnostic of Urogenital Tuberculosis. In: Urogenital Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04837-6_5

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