Review for 10.1186/s12876-018-0768-0 (2018)

Reviewer’ s report
Title: Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome associated with tuberculous salpingitis and peritonitis: a case
presentation and review of literature
Version: 0Date: 02 Nov 2017
Reviewer: Anja Bloom
Reviewer's report:
The authors describe an interesting case study in which a patient with Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome
was found to have genital and peritoneal tuberculosis. They claim the novelty of the study to bethe ascites found in the peritoneum as well as the difficult tuberculosis diagnosis which was madefrom laparoscopy (and later confirmed from biopsy cultures). The authors have figures to illustrateboth of these points and the paper is well written. However, Sharma et al 2003 Acta ObstetGynecol Scand., has already reported 3 cases of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome associated withgenital tuberculosis, therefore the study should be to be rewritten to highlight their novel findingsmore and focus on clinical implications. Further questions that should be addressed: Are there anyother cases for tuberculosis could not be confirmed by standard methods where a similarvisualization of disease would be of benefit? Are there any other cases of bacterial peritonitiswhere laparoscopy could be used?
Are the methods appropriate and well described?
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