“Tuberculosis extrapulmonar de localizacion en aparato genital femenino”

Abstract

Tuberculosis is considered a major health problem worldwide, since it affects about 9.4 million people each year and has around two million deaths. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a pathology caused by the agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT), which can affect any organ of the human body, mostly appears as a spread of a pulmonary focus and which is facilitated in patients with conditions of immunosuppression. The present case is about a 60-year-old patient with no relevant medical history, who is referred from the health center due to abundant postmenopausal vaginal bleeding, accompanied by abdominal pain of several months, which is why xiv external examinations are performed of laboratory of images and the stain of Ziehl-Neelsen in secretion of cervix that reports positive for tuberculosis, for that reason it is contrarefiere to the health center where it is realizing the scheme of treatment.