Mammary, testicular and adnexal tuberculosis diagnosed by histology in a rural hospital in Southern Ethiopia

José M Ramos; M Carolina Isea-Peña; Abraham Tesfamariam; Sable Balcha; Francisco Reyes; Miguel Górgolas

doi:10.1016/j.ijmyco.2012.10.003

Mammary, testicular and adnexal tuberculosis diagnosed by histology in a rural hospital in Southern Ethiopia

Int J Mycobacteriol. 2012 Dec;1(4):212-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmyco.2012.10.003. Epub 2012 Nov 1.

Authors

José M Ramos¹, M Carolina Isea-Peña², Abraham Tesfamariam³, Sable Balcha³, Francisco Reyes³, Miguel Górgolas⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Medicine and Paediatrics, Hospital General Rural de Gambo, Shashemane, Ethiopia; Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Department of Medicine, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Service of Microbiology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
³ Department of General Medicine and Paediatrics, Hospital General Rural de Gambo, Shashemane, Ethiopia.
⁴ Department of General Medicine and Paediatrics, Hospital General Rural de Gambo, Shashemane, Ethiopia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain; Department of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

PMID: 26785626
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmyco.2012.10.003

Abstract

This study describes the experience of mammary, testicle and adnexal tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed by histological characteristics in a rural district hospital in Southern Ethiopia over a period of 7years. During the same period, a total of 5589 TB cases were diagnosed. Fourteen cases of breast TB with a prevalence of 0.25% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.14-0.43), 8 cases of testicular TB (prevalence 0.14, [95% CI: 0.06-0.29]) and two ovarian TB (prevalence: 0.035 [95% CI: 0.001-0.15]). The breast, testes and adnexal TB may mimic other conditions. Proper diagnosis is encouraged because the disease is curable with anti-TB drugs.

Keywords: Breast tuberculosis; Orchitis tuberculosis; Ovarian tuberculosis; Pathological diagnosis.