Frequency of urogenital tuberculosis in an unselected autopsy series from 1928 to 1949 and 1976 to 1989.
The evaluation of a total of 12,211 autopsy protocols prior to the introduction of chemotherapy (1928-1949) and in the recent years (1976-1989) had the following results: the frequency of renal tuberculosis has dropped from 2.0 to 0.6% of all autopsies in men and from 1.7 to 0.9% in women. While the frequency of miliary tuberculosis infections in general has decreased to about one fourth (from 2.7 to 0.6% of all autopsies), renal involvement in patients with miliary tuberculosis has rather increased (from 35.4 to 52.2 for men and from 37.5 to 68.0% for women). The frequency of miliary tuberculosis of the kidneys was two times higher in girls than in boys (3.8% of girls and 1.8% of boys). Tuberculosis of the renal pelvis, ureter or urinary bladder secondary to a renal tuberculous infection has decreased from 65 to 4.3% of all tuberculous infections with renal involvement in males and from 25 to 0% in females. In the second period, the frequency of genital tuberculosis has in all dropped to about one tenth.
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Institute of Pathology, Municipal Hospital of Wuppertal, FRG.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D005860:Germany, West / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000453:epidemiology; D014401:Tuberculosis, Urogenital / Q000453:epidemiology*