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

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 13-14

  Bose, Mridula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRAZINAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMENORRHEA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPAREUNIA; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MENORRHAGIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGOMENORRHEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80054752544     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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