Massive gastrointestinal tuberculosis in a young patient without immunosupression

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2382-2384

  Settbas, Yasar ^a   Alper, Murat ^a   Akcan, Yusuf ^a   Gurbuz, Yesim ^b   Oksuz, Sükrü ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIULCER AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HYDROCORTISONE; ISONIAZID; LANSOPRAZOLE; MESALAZINE; MORINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRANULOMA; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; ILEUM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; NEURITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; RETROBULBAR OPTIC NEUROPATHY; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0142213363     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v9.i10.2382     Document Type: Article

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