Can tissue PCR augment the diagnostic accuracy in genitourinary tract tuberculosis?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-38

  Chawla, Arun ^a   Chawla, Kiran ^a   Reddy, Sreedhar ^a   Arora, Nitika ^a   Bairy, Indira ^a   Rao, Sugandhi ^a   Hegde, Padmaraj ^a   Thomas, Joseph ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Genitourinary tract; Histopathology; Tissue PCR; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GOLD STANDARD; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PENIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, MALE GENITAL; TUBERCULOSIS, RENAL;

EID: 84856421934     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327039     Document Type: Article

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