AUTHORS’ REPLY

We do appreciate to receive a letter from one of our reader of this Journal regarding the article on “A Clinical Study on Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis”. We would like to response in the following manner: We mentioned that the study was a ‘Cross-Sectional’ one and that the patients presented with features of extra pulmonary tuberculosis (confirmed bacteriologically or histopathologically) in any of the three surgical units of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong. So, the study was limited by place and time like other scientific study. Due to selection of the cases from surgical units there was little or no scope of getting tuberculous meningitis and tuberculous pericarditis. It would be nice to include all cases of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. But it was unlikely to full fill the inclusion criteria (bacteriological or histopathological confirmation) with these two types of extra pulmonary tuberculosis.