Intestinal tuberculosis: A diagnostic challenge - Case report and review of the literature

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1074-1077

  Giouleme, Olga ^a   Paschos, Paschalis ^a   Katsaros, Marios ^a   Papalexi, Fani ^a   Karabatsou, Sofia ^a   Masmanidou, Maria ^a   Koliouskas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

case report; diagnosis; intestinal tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CECUM TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENOPATHY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PARACENTESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 80053629028     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: 14735687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e32834a9470     Document Type: Review

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