Incidence, risk factors and clinical characteristics of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis patients: a ten-year study in the North of Iran.

Hesamaddin Shirzad-AskiNiloofar HamidiAhmad SohrabiAbdollah AbbasiRoghieh GolshaJamileh Movahedi

Published in: Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH (2020)

Our most important finding was the increasing incidence of EPTB, which shows the importance of attention to this disease. Lymph node and pleural tissue were the most commonly infected tissues. Skeletal TB presents a challenge in the diagnosis and treatment of EPTB.

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risk factors
pulmonary tuberculosis
lymph node
mycobacterium tuberculosis
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
gene expression
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
working memory
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
patient reported outcomes
radiation therapy
patient reported