Abstract:Genitourinary tuberculosis is the second most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis after lymph node involvement. It can involve any part of the genitourinary system and presentation may vary from vague urinary symptoms to chronic kidney disease. The kidney is usually the primary organ infected in the genitourinary system and renal involvement of tuberculosis often does not present with classic symptoms of fever, weight loss, or night sweats. Tuberculosis of the urinary tract is, therefore, easily overloo… Show more
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