Abdominal tuberculosis: Analysis of clinical features and outcome of adult patients in southern Taiwan

Chang Gung Medical Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 509-516

  Hu, Ming Luen ^a   Lee, Chen Hsiang ^a   Kuo, Chung Mou ^a   Huang, Chao Cheng ^b   Tai, Wei Chen ^a   Chang, Kuo Chin ^a   Lee, Chuan Mo ^a   Chuah, Seng Kee ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abdominal tuberculosis; Intestinal tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculous peritonitis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE CONTROL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTESTINE ABSCESS; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; INTRAABDOMINAL TUBERCULOMA; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERITONEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATIC;

EID: 70449428732     PISSN: 20720939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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