Intra-abdominal and gastrointestinal tuberculosis

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 773-783

  Rasheed, S ^a   Zinicola, R ^a   Watson, D ^a   Bajwa, A ^a   Mcdonald, Peter J ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Diagnosis; Extra pulmonary; Intestinal; Management; Multidrug resistant TB; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDLINE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERINFECTION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

ABDOMEN; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 35348850133     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01337.x     Document Type: Review

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