Case 27-2011: A 17-year-old boy with abdominal pain and weight loss

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 940-950

  Winter, Harland S ^a,b   Gervais, Debra A ^a,b   Branda, John A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANT; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; URINE COLOR; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PERITONITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 80052562199     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1102200     Document Type: Article

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