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Covers all forms of urological tuberculosis with specification on separate forms
Written by the specialist in this field and author of many patents on methods for diagnosis and therapy for urogenital tuberculosis
Outlines unique approaches to the management of Urogenital Tuberculosis patients
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 book approaches the classification, pathogenesis, diagnostic, therapy and surgery for kidney tuberculosis as well as male genital tuberculosis. The reader will find recent data on epidemiology, many interesting history cases with illustrations and new methods for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Content; Abbreviations
1. Introduction; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
2. Epidemiology of Urogenital Tuberculosis as a part of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
3. Classification of Urogenital Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
4. Clinical features of Urogenital Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
5. Diagnostic of Urogenital Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
6. Predisposition, Pathogenesis and Prophylaxis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
7. Bladder tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya and Denis Kholtobin
8. Male genital tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
9. Therapy of Urogenital Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
10. Surgery of Urogenital Tuberculosis; Ekaterina Kulchavenya
11. Acknowledgments
12. References