Abdominal Tuberculosis

Disease-a-Month

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-38

  Lazarus, Angeline A ^a   Thilagar, Bennett ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS; ADD ON THERAPY; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; PERITONEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

ABDOMEN; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 33846110408     PISSN: 00115029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disamonth.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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