Laparoscopy in suspected abdominal tuberculosis is useful as an early diagnostic method

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 987-989

  Krishnan, Prasad ^a,b   Othiyil Vayoth, Sudheer ^a   Dhar, Puneet ^a   Surendran, Sudhindran ^a   Ponnambathayil, Shaji ^a  

^a AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Gurudeva Charitable Trust   (India)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Adenosine deaminase; Ascites; Early diagonsis; Frozen sections; Gastrointestinal tuberculosis; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54349117549     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04717.x     Document Type: Article

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