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Site predilection of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: study from a tertiary care centre

Background Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) still constitutes an important clinical problem. We aimed to evaluate the site prevalence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Methods We retrospectively evaluated 187 extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients diagnosed between 1st June 2013 and 31st May 2015 in a tertiary care hospital, Kanpur, Kerala, India.

Results Among the extra pulmonary tuberculosis 112 (59.9%) were males. About 170 (90.9%) patients received CAT1 treatment and 17 (9%) patients received CAT2 treatment. Overall, the total number of different types of EPTB cases included Lymph node (n=55, 29.41%), GIT (n=45, 24.04%), Pleura (n=44, 23.53%), Skeletal (n =14, 7.49%), CNS (n=7, 3.74%) EPTB cases other site included mainly genitourinary (6), breast (6), skin (5), pericardium (3), Psoas (4) a vocal cord (1) and eye (1).

Conclusions EPTB still constitutes an important clinical problem. In the current study, we assessed the site of predilection of EPTB patients. In this study, EPTB cases constituted 52.08% of all tuberculosis cases presented to our center in the study period. Lymph node tuberculosis is the most common type.