Complicated and delayed diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis

American Journal of Case Reports

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-112

  Bolognesi, Massimo ^a   Bolognesi, Diletta ^a  

^a Internal General Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascitic fluid cytology; Diagnostic laparoscopy; Hiccup and ascites; Tuberculous peritonitis; Ultrasound tomography and computed tomography scan

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; IRON; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DYSPEPSIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HICCUP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; LANGHANS GIANT CELL; LAPAROSCOPY; LUNG GRANULOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; NORTH AFRICA; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; VILLOUS ADENOMA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84876499092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19415923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.883886     Document Type: Article

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