Peritoneal tuberculosis in pregnancy mimicking advanced ovarian cancer: a plea to avoid hasty, radical and irreversible surgical decisions

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sakorafas, George H ^a   Ntavatzikos, Anastasions ^a   Konstantiadou, Ioanna ^a   Karamitopoulou, Eva ^a   Kavatha, Dimitra ^a   Peros, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hysterectomy; Laparoscopy; Laparotomy; Ovarian cancer; Peritoneal; Pregnancy; Surgery; Tuberculosis; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASCITIC FLUID; CA-125 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949170493     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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