Peritoneal tuberculosis mimicking advanced ovarian cancer: A retrospective review of 22 cases

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 565-569

  Koc, Sevgi ^a   Beydilli, Gulay ^a   Tulunay, Gokhan ^a   Ocalan, Reyhan ^a   Boran, Nurettin ^a   Ozgul, Nejat ^a   Kose, M Faruk ^a   Erdogan, Zuhal ^a  

^a Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ascites; Ca125; Ovarian cancer; Peritoneal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CA-125 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750191924     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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