Open AccessCase series of genital tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Aditi Chhonkar,
Swagata També,
Yashant Aswani,
Chitra Nayak
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-0565
pISSN - 2589-0557
DOI - 10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_3_17
Subject(s) - medicine , genital tuberculosis , series (stratigraphy) , tuberculosis , sex organ , dermatology , pathology , paleontology , genetics , biology
Genital tuberculosis (TB) is a rare, comprising <0.5% cases of extrapulmonary TB. Among cases of genitourinary TB, glandular TB is even rarer. Its a diagnosis of exclusion. Most patients present later in the course of disease due to the associated stigma in view of site of involvement and the hesitancy on the patients's part. We saw two such cases of nonhealing genital ulcers in immunocompetent males.