title: [Post-menopausal endometrial tuberculosis].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges. claire.genet@unilim.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Genet
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ducroix-Roubertou
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gondran
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bezanahary
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weinbreck
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Denes
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents