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المستخلص
Annually, 8 million people become ill with tuberculosis and 2 million
persons die from the disease worldwide (WHO 2006 ).
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis was present in 51.8% of all cases which
was high compared with the earlier surveys showing percentages ranging
between 10 and 40% .
This work is aiming to evaluate the frequency of extrapulmonary
tuberculosis in period from 1996 to 2006 in Cairo University, TB Outpatient
Clinic.
The study included 672 patients with extrapulmonary TB from record
files of the TB outpatient clinic. They included: Full history, clinical
examination, results of sputum analysis for acid fast bacilli, radiograph or CT
scan, results of Tuberculin skin test, erythrocyte sedimentation rate,
cytological and histopathological results.