Intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis: Changing trends over 10 years and a review of 80 patients

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-136

  Akgun, Yilmaz ^a,b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ASPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE BYPASS; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; ARTICLE; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 19144364405     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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