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Concurrent Vulvar and Cervical Tuberculosis With Suspected Endometrial Involvement in a Postmenopausal Woman: A
Yaping Chen1, Hua Li1, Pengyan Dong1
1State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis Research Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Institute of Tuberculosis, Guangzhou Medical University Guangzhou P.R. China.
Clinical Case Reports
|July 23, 2026
Abstract:
Female genital tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of postmenopausal women presenting with abnormal vaginal bleeding, even in the absence of pulmonary tuberculosis history. For confirmed vulvar and cervical lesions, biopsy with acid-fast staining and culture enables prompt diagnosis and cure, while suspected endometrial involvement requires histopathological and microbiological confirmation.
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