Clinical, colonoscopic, and histological profile of colonic tuberculosis in a tertiary hospital

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 351-356

  Alvares, J Filipe ^a,b   Devarbhavi, H ^a   Makhija, P ^a   Rao, S ^a   Kottoor, R ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CECUM DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON DISEASE; COLON MUCOSA; COLON POLYP; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 17644412026     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861116     Document Type: Article

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