Imagenología de la tuberculosis urogenital, Cuenca Enero/1993 - Junio /1997

Abstract

Despite the availability of audiovisual methods and systematization of current information, in our country we still have difficulty accessing it. Therefore we believe the development of a photo album of radiological images in a condition of such involvement as very useful urogenital tuberculosis. A study of four and a half years at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital and the Social Security Hospital in the city of Cuenca on the incidence and diagnosis of Tuberculosis Urogenital is done emphasizing the search for radiological images and their importance in the overall patient management . Interestingly, 31.91 percent of the 63 cases have found a source of diagnostic pathology of surgical specimens. The 27.66 percent of the patients underwent abdominal radiograph, abdominal ultrasound studies and contrasted. The findings of each diagnostic method is described and accompanied by fotogralfías. The results regarding the clinical picture shows that the most common symptoms were back pain, hematuria and dysuria. The images were the most significant alterations pyelocaliceal and renal abnormalities. Throughout the study, they found significant flaws in the coding of statistical data