Abdominal tuberculosis. On-going challenge to gastroenterologists

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 274-280

  Ibrahim, Mahgoub ^a   Osoba, Abimbola O ^a  

^a KING KHALID NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SAUDI ARABIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 17144412987     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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