Main description:

This book brings awareness to a neglected condition that is nevertheless prevalent world-wide. Much focus is justly given to pulmonary tuberculosis, one of the key medical scourges of humanity, but this disease also often manifests itself in organs outside of the lungs. There is however a surprising lack of information available on extrapulmonary TB, which this book aims to remedy. Specifically, research, as well as epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment options, are discussed in detail by an international list of experts.

This comprehensive product serves as a valuable resource to numerous fields of medicine due to the presence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis throughout the human body.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.- 2. Pleural Tuberculosis.- 3. Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis.- 4. Hepatobiliary and splenic tuberculosis.- 5. Lymphatic Tuberculosis.- 6. Bone and Joint Tuberculosis.- 7. Tuberculous Spondylodiscitis.- 8. Tuberculous Meningitis.- 9. Tuberculous Encephalitis.- 10. Spinal tuberculosis.- 11. Genitourinary Tuberculosis.- 12. Cardiovascular Tuberculosis.- 13. Cutaneous Tuberculosis.- 14. Tuberculosis of Eye.- 15. Infection control in extrapulmonary TB.- 16. Tuberculosis in the ICU.