CT findings in fatal primary intestinal tuberculosis in a liver transplant recipient

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 221-224

  Özbülbül, Nilgün Işiksalan ^a   Özdemir, Mustafa ^a   Turhan, Nesrin ^a  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Gastrointestinal; Liver transplantation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LAMINA PROPRIA; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; FATALITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 60849139453     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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