[Post-menopausal endometrial tuberculosis].
A 69-year-old menopaused woman, presented a 2-month history of metrorrhagia. We suspected a malignant disease, but, the histopathologic examination of biopsies, found an endometrial inflammation without malignant cells. Culture for mycobacteria showed a Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A course of four-drug antituberculous therapy was started and the patient recovered. Tuberculosis remains a common disease, but genital infection is infrequent. Usually, it concerns young infertile women from non-industrial countries. More attention should be paid to this disease. Women, irrespective of their age, should be investigated for silent or subclinical genital symptoms, with mycobacterial examination.
Genet
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Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges. claire.genet@unilim.fr
Ducroix-Roubertou
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Gondran
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Bezanahary
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Weinbreck
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Denes
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D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004716:Endometritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017698:Postmenopause; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology
D000995:Antitubercular Agents