Frequency of endometrial tuberculosis in female infertility

ABSTRACT

To determine the frequency of endometrial tuberculosis in infertility patients. Design: An observational analytical study. Place and Duration of Study Military Hospital Rawalpindi and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from August 1998 to April 1999. Subjects and Endometrial biopsies were taken from 50 cases of infertility and subjected to culture on BACTEC 460 TB instrument. Tuberculous endometritis was found in 10% [n=5] of cases. It was concluded that endometrial tuberculosis is not an infrequent cause of infertility in our setup