SURGICAL APPROACH TO ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS

Surgical Study of Abdominal Tuberculosis

30 cases of abdominal tuberculosis were studied between November 2013 to November 2015 in different surgical units of Government General Hospital, attached to Guntur Medical College, Guntur and affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, AP. The different surgical procedures which were undertaken for established abdominal tuberculosis with failed conservative therapy were analy...

Abdominal Tuberculosis: A Surgical Enigma

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com infection is the human strain of mycobacterium tuberculosis. The organisms reach the gastrointestinal tract through various routes. Haematogenous spread from lungs with later reactivation is the commonest. This is followed by direct ingestion of bacilli in sputum from an active pulmonary focus or by direct spread from adjacent organs. Isolated affec...

Abdominal Tuberculosis

Radical surgical approach to spinal tuberculosis.

In many cases of Pott’s disease conservative measures give satisfactory results, but the long period of treatment necessary causes the patient considerable inconvenience and loss of earnings. The need for more rapid cure has been recognised and many attempts have been made to achieve this. in his work on paraplegia Pott (1779) wrote: “ The remedy for this dreadful disease consists merely in pro...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...