A Clinical Study on Extra-pulmonary
Tuberculosis
MM Karim et al recently reported a clinical study on
extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (J BCPS Vol. 24, No. 1,
January 2006 issue) to identify the various
presentations of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, is an
impressive display of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in
our country although the authors have not described a
few important presentations like tuberculous
meningitis, other CNS tuberculosis; tuberculous
pericarditis; and genito-urinary tuberculosis which are
not uncommon. From our own experience we have
treated 13 cases of CNS tuberculosis in one medical
unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in 2005.