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TB: Paraspinal sinuses? Do remember renal tuberculosis.

13 Sep, 12 | by Emma

Declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation in 1993, over one third of population of the world is infected with TB and 7% of all deaths in the developing world are attributed to TB.  We present a series of cases that illustrate the varied presentations of TB.

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A small proportion of patients with pulmonary TB develop infection of the genitourinary system. Here the authors report the case of a young woman in India with low back pain and fever…

Seema Biswas
Editor-in-Chief

Paraspinal sinuses? Do remember renal tuberculosis.

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