Imaging of abdominal tuberculosis

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 312-323

  Akhan, Okan ^a   Pringot, Jacques ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abdominal tuberculosis; Barium studies; CT; Hepatosplenic tuberculosis; Peritoneal tuberculosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ASCITES; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; PANCREAS DISEASE; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATIC; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; TUBERCULOSIS, SPLENIC;

EID: 0036484808     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300100994     Document Type: Review

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