Table 3.
Site of infection and diagnostic attributes of extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients registered at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur from 2015 to 2017 (N = 651)
| Clinical Characteristics |
Patients n (%) |
|---|---|
| Site of infection | |
| Pleural | 217 (33.4) |
| Lymphatic | 170 (26.1) |
| Abdominal/ascites | 80 (12.3) |
| Bone/joint/spinal | 23 (3.5) |
| Meningeal | 38 (5.8) |
| Skin | 6 (0.9) |
| Other a/not recorded | 117 (18) |
| Diagnostic test | |
| Histopathology | 437 (67.1) |
| CT scan/MRI | 67 (10.3) |
| X-ray | 409 (62.8) |
| Ultrasonography | 76 (11.7) |
| Other b | 10 (1.5) |
| Not recorded/not done | 15 (2.3) |
a Testicular, Genitourinary, other organ involvement, b ESR, CBC, LFT, RFT, CT = Computed Tomography, MRI = Magnetic Resonance Imaging