Female genital tract tuberculosis: how long will it elude diagnosis?

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) in urine for genitourinary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2017
   Pooled it
2. Guidelines for the prevention and management of mother-to-child transmission of tuberculosis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026
   Review
3. The secrets of menstrual blood: emerging frontiers from diagnostic tools to stem cell therapies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
   Review
4. Current Advances in Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Systems as Nanocarriers for the Management of Female Genital Tuberculosis.Cureus · 2024
   Review
5. Reactivated disseminated tuberculosis in pregnancy: Case report and review of the literature.Case reports in women's health · 2023
   Article
6. Emerging progress on diagnosis and treatment of female genital tuberculosis.The Journal of international medical research · 2021
   Review
7. A woman with disseminated tuberculosis experienced preterm delivery, fallopian tube pregnancy, and delivered successfully following in vitro fertilization: a case report.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021
   Article
8. Disseminated Tuberculosis Involving Lung, Peritoneum, and Endometrium in an Immunocompetent 17-Year-Old Patient.Cureus · 2020
   Article
9. The Role of MGIT 960 Culture Medium in Resolving the Diagnostic Dilemma for Genital Tuberculosis Patients Presenting with Infertility.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India · 2018
   Article
10. Genital tuberculosis in females.The Indian journal of medical research · 2017
    Review
11. Ovarian tuberculosis masquerading as ovarian cancer in HIV infected patient: a plea to avoid unnecessary surgery.The Pan African medical journal · 2014
    Article
12. Tuberculous salpingitis: a case report.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2013
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Evaluating PCR, culture & histopathology in the diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis.2011

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