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dc.contributor.authorSsendikaddiwa, Emmy Bwogi
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-04T07:20:16Z
dc.date.available2013-07-04T07:20:16Z
dc.date.issued2001-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/1510
dc.descriptionA Dissertation submitted to school of postgraduate studies in partial fulfillment of the for the award of the Degree of Master of Medicine in Pathology of MAKERERE UNIVERSITY.en_US
dc.description.abstractAn autopsy study of the pathology of extra pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS infection has not been carried out at Mulago Hospital before yet tuberculosis is assuming epidemic proportions in this era of HIV/AIDS and s responsible for significant mortality. This preliminary report describes a descriptive cross-sectional autopsy study of 86 cases of adult HIV positive cadavers with extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Autopsy examinations were done, the organs sampled and tissues obtained processed for histopathology using routine H&E and ZN stains. The results show that TB in AIDS is widely disseminated and associated with a significant mortality. The diagnosis of EPTB is difficult because the manifestations are protean and non-specific. The histological patterns are mostly a typical and characterized by areas of caseous necrosis with much nuclear debri, no surrounding epithelioid cells nor Longhan’s gaint cells, abundant AAFB’s and a scanty lymphocytic infiltrate. Most of the tuberculosis is undetected clinically. The results are discussed and compared with those obtained in studies elsewhere in the world particularly sub-Saharan Africa.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectPathology,en_US
dc.subjectTuberculosis,en_US
dc.subjectHIV / AIDS,en_US
dc.subjectAutopsy,en_US
dc.subjectMulago Hospital,en_US
dc.subjectHistopathology,en_US
dc.subjectEpithelioid cells,en_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa.en_US
dc.titleThe Pathology of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Positive Adults: An Autopsy study.en_US
dc.typeThesis, mastersen_US


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