Tuberculous peritonitis: Towards a positive diagnosis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-177

  Dhiman, R K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ALBUMIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ASCITES; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; OVARY CANCER; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; PERITONEUM CANCER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; ASCITES FLUID; BIOPSY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ASCITIC FLUID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442542156     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2003.12.006     Document Type: Note

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