Female genital system tuberculosis: A retrospective clinicopathological study of 1,548 cases in Turkish women

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 379-384

  Türkmen, Ilknur Çetinaslan ^a   Başsüllü, Nuray ^a   Çomunoǧlu, Cem ^b,d   Baǧci, Pelin ^c   Aydin, Övgü ^d   Çomunoǧlu, Nil ^e   Gezer, Altay ^d   Calay, Zerrin ^d   Ilvan, Şennur ^d  

^a ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Haydarpasa Numune State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Female genital; Female genital tract; Infertility; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, FEMALE GENITAL; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; TURKEY; UTERINE DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864476945     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-012-2281-y     Document Type: Article

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