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A clinical observation was done on 1, 100 patients with genito-urinary tuberculosis who were treated for 8 years from 1959 through 1966.
The results obtained were as follows:
1) Incidence of genito-urinary tuberculosis showed a tendency of decreasing. The ratio of the patients with genito-urinary tuberculosis to all out-patients was 6% in 1966, while it was 21% in 1959.
2) Urinalysis showed A. F. B. positive in 73% of these patients.
3) According to Lattimer's classification of pyelographic findings, 54% of them are belonged to Group 4.
4) Radio-renography was found to be effective in diagnosis of uretero-pelvic stricture, but renal angiography and scanning in diagnosis of localized lesion in the renal parenchyma.
5) In prostatic tuberculosis urethro-vesicography was found to be the method of choice in its diagnosis.
6) Efficacy of anti-tuberculous chemotherapy was investigated histologically.
7) Difficulty of hearing, as a side effect of anti-tuberculous agent (S. M.) occurred more frequently in the patients with impaired renal function.
8) Nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, speleotomy, uretero-cystostomy, vesicoplastic procedure and epididymectomy were performed on these patients according to the indication.
9) Follow-up study was done on 244 cases who had been discharge from hospital over 2 years. Healing rate of these patients was found to be 89%.
