[Clinical aspects of genital tuberculosis in young women].

The review of 108 case histories of active genital tuberculosis (GT) in young women provided the following information: the symptoms emerged acutely in 30%, GT ran under the mask of nonspecific salpingo-oophoritis in 44%, GT was associated with pain, general toxicity, blood picture changes in 50, 30 and 66% of patients, respectively. In 70.7% of young women tuberculosis affected uterine tubes only, whereas in women over 30 years old the infection more frequently occurred in the uterus. 63% of GT females were treated surgically.