STREPTOMYCIN IN GYNECOLOGIC TUBERCULOSIS

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Abstract
With the advent of streptomycin in the treatment of clinical tuberculosis in 1945, new hope arose that this antibiotic would cause arrest or cure of gynecologic tuberculosis. This same spirit of hopeful expectation was shared by clinicians interested in other forms of tuberculosis. Our interest in the use of this agent in the treatment of tuberculosis of the female genital organs began in January 1948. Since then we have undertaken to determine what role streptomycin plays in genitoperitoneal tuberculosis. Our patients have been divided into three groups: Those 'in whom genital tuberculosis was diagnosed preoperatively. These were given streptomycin, operated on and followed with another course of streptomycin postoperatively. There are 16 patients in this group. Those who were operated on with genitoperitoneal tuberculosis undiagnosed preoperatively and who were therefore without benefit of streptomycin, but in whom the antibiotic was given postoperatively. There are 3 patients in this

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