[Female genital tuberculosis, a changing reality]

From 1964 to 1979 we diagnosed 185 new cases of female genital tuberculosis. We report the used diagnostic methods and the changes observed in this time relating to age distribution, subjective symptoms, previous and present specific lesions, clinical and anatomo-pathologic manifestations. We show either the therapeutic schedule, including rifampin, isoniazid and ethambutol, or the surgical treatment indications. With evolution and therapy of pulmonary manifestations, we debate the decrease in genital forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and, within the limits of that, the pelviperitonitis disappearance and the reduced incidence of tubal and ovarian inflammations and of genito-pelvic manifestations.