[Clinical course and diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis]

The incidence of genital tuberculosis has increased for the last decade 2-fold reaching 11.9% of all the extrapulmonary cases. Three clinical forms of tuberculosis of the uterine appendages are distinguished: latent or minor inflammation, marked inflammation with tubuloovarian lesions, tuberculomas. The diagnosis of the disease, especially of latent forms, is not easy and requires studying the disease history, the results of subcutaneous 50 TU tuberculin test, histerosalpingography, endoscopic (surgical laparoscopy, histeroscopy, colposcopy), histological and microbiological findings.