[Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a challenge]

Ugeskr Laeger. 2011 Mar 21;173(12):886-9.
[Article in Danish]

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.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Denmark / epidemiology
  • Denmark / ethnology
  • Emigrants and Immigrants
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents