title: [Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a challenge].
abstract: In 2008 extrapulmonary tuberculosis accounted for 25% of the 367 cases of tuberculosis reported in Denmark. The majority of cases was seen in immigrants with 43% of the cases being extrapulmonary compared with 11% in ethnic Danes. Lymph nodes are most frequently affected followed by tuberculosis in pleura, bones and joints, the central nervous system, and the intraabdominal organs; but all organs can be affected. The treatment is standard therapy with four drugs for two months; in meningitis and pericarditis followed by at least four months with two drugs and corticosteroids.
authors.affiliation: Lungemedicinsk Afdeling Y, Gentofte Hospital, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark. seersholm@dadlnet.dk
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seersholm
authors.forename: Torgny
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wilcke
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents