Increasing incidence of tuberculosis diagnosed by surgery: a single centre analysis in low-incidence country.

CONCLUSIONS: Although the overall incidence of TB in the Czech Republic is low and constantly continues to decrease, the number of TB detected by surgical procedures is increasing. Surgery still remains an important tool in diagnostics of nonobvious cases of TB, especially in patients with a potential risk of malignancy. PMID: 32228817 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32228817?dopt=Abstract

Source: Central European Journal of Public Health - April 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Cent Eur J Public Health Source Type: research