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Current survey of urinary tuberculosis in Hokkaido, Japan.

Takahashi S, Takeyama K, Kunishima Y, Hashimoto K, Miyamoto S, Ichihara K, Takagi Y, Tanaka T, Hirose T, Sunaoshi K, Takei F, Miyao N, Kurimura Y, Takagi S, Tsukamoto T

Department of Urology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S 1, W 16 Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. stakahas@sapmed.ac.jp

Urinary tuberculosis has been rare in recent years and its diagnosis is difficult because there are no disease-specific symptoms. We tried to clarify the occurrence of urinary tuberculosis in recent years in our area. During the past 5 years, there were 12 patients with urinary tuberculosis in the clinics that participated in this study. Their chief complaints were frequent voiding in 7 patients and gross hematuria in 3 patients. They were diagnosed by nucleic acid amplification tests and imaging modalities such as excretory urography, computed tomography, and/or cystoscopy. Most of the patients received multidrug treatment and had relatively favorable treatment outcomes. There has been a small but neglected number of patients with urinary tuberculosis in recent years. We should keep this rare and difficult-to-diagnose disease in mind and suspect it when patients complain of longstanding urinary symptoms with no obvious cause.

Published 26 April 2007 in J Infect Chemother, 13(2): 105-8.
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