Clinical spectrum of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at a tertiary care centre in Ghana: a retrospective study
Walter Appati, Divine Aseye Yao Amenuke, Adelaide Appati, Gifty Akua Baiden · 2026
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Description
Walter Appati and three colleagues chart in 2026 tuberculosis that strikes outside the lungs at a major Ghanaian teaching hospital. Records from the chest clinic between October 2023 and November 2025 covered 1,098 tuberculosis patients, and the team separated lung disease from disease elsewhere in the body. Outside-lung cases made up about one in six patients.
Spinal tuberculosis dominated at roughly two fifths of outside-lung cases, followed by gland and abdominal disease, with heart sac and brain cases rarer. Patients aged thirty-five to fifty-four had triple the odds of the spinal form compared with other ages. Male sex and HIV infection each independently raised the odds of gland tuberculosis. Outside-lung patients were less often male and less often HIV-positive than lung patients overall, underlining how varied this disease family is.
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| CREATOR | Walter Appati, Divine Aseye Yao Amenuke, Adelaide Appati, Gifty Akua Baiden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28870 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |