Etiology and management of genitourinary tuberculosis

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 678-688

  Abbara, Aula ^a   Davidson, Robert N ^a  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; BEDAQUILINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PROTIONAMIDE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; STREPTOMYCIN; THIOACETAZONE; THIOAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLADDER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CYSTOSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROCYSTOPLASTY; EPIDIDYMECTOMY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBERCULOSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMEAR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URETER; URETHRA; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, UROGENITAL;

EID: 83455264027     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2011.172     Document Type: Review

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