Abdominal cocoon associated with tuberculous pelvic inflammatory disease

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 75, Issue 890, 2002, Pages 174-176

  Lalloo, S ^a   Krishna, D ^a   Maharajh, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENCAPSULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PERITONEUM; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MICROBIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, FEMALE GENITAL;

EID: 0036485162     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.75.890.750174     Document Type: Article

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