Diseases masking and delaying the diagnosis of urogenital tuberculosis.

摘要: As urogenital tuberculosis (UGTB) has no specific clinical features, it is often overlooked. To identify some of the reasons for misdiagnosing UGTB we performed a systematic review. We searched in Medline/PubMed papers with keywords ‘urogenital tuberculosis, rare’ and unusual’. ‘Urogenital presented 230 articles unusual’ 81 only, total 311 papers. A 34 were duplicated so excluded from In addition, analysis 33 on epidemiological studies literature reviews, describing non-TB cases TB another than organs (48 articles), congenital (three as case concomitant disease (16 complication BCG-therapy (eight articles). also 22 dedicated to complications therapy, which made 164 articles. Among remaining 147 selected 43 described really unusual, difficult diagnose cases. included our review WHO report 2014, one scientific monograph urology. The most frequent delayed diagnosis absence typical features UGTB, tendency hide behind mask disease. can conclude that actually not rare disease, but an overlooked main are vague, atypical low index suspicion.