Surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis: a protean disease

Badaoui, Elie; Berney, Thierry; Kaiser, Laurent; Mentha, Gilles; Morel, Philippe

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Surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis: a protean disease

ContributorsBadaoui, Elie; Berney, Thierry; Kaiser, Laurent; Mentha, Gilles; Morel, Philippe

Published inHepato-gastroenterology, vol. 47, no. 33, p. 751-755

Publication date2000

Abstract

The incidence of tuberculosis is rising again in the Western world, due to the emergence of new groups of patients at risk. This paper intends to describe the various patterns of surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis in an industrialized country.

Keywords

Adult
Aged
Female
Humans
Peritonitis, Tuberculous/diagnosis
Retrospective Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal/diagnosis/radiography/surgery
Tuberculosis, Lymph Node/diagnosis

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BADAOUI, Elie et al. Surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis: a protean disease. In: Hepato-gastroenterology, 2000, vol. 47, n° 33, p. 751–755.

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PID : unige:41056
PMID : 10919025

Journal ISSN0172-6390

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Surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis: a protean disease

The incidence of tuberculosis is rising again in the Western world, due to the emergence of new groups of patients at risk. This paper intends to describe the various patterns of surgical presentation of abdominal tuberculosis in an industrialized country.

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