Abdominal tuberculosis is common but it rare to diagnose through the contents of hernia. Clinical presentations abdominal are diverse depending on organ involved in cavity. Thirty-five-year-old female was admitted surgical ward Ajmal khan Tibbiya college hospital, Aligarh Muslim university with complaints a swelling infra-umbilical region previous vertical LSCS incision. Hernia repair surgery r...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric abdominal tuberculosis cases by assessing the clinical, laboratory, and radiological features of patients who presented at our clinic and were diagnosed with abdominal tuberculosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clinical, laboratory, and radiological features were reviewed retrospectively for 35 patients diagnosed with abdomina...

Tuberculosis remains a challenge in medicine despite availability of antibiotic treatments. Latent tuberculosis is found in a third of the world’s population. Abdominal tuberculosis is a rare condition in high-income countries, with peritoneal tuberculosis and splenic abscess occurring even less frequently, even in countries with higher prevalence of abdominal tuberculosis. We describe such an ...

The gall bladder is least common intra-abdominal organ to be involved by tuberculosis. It is either part of systemic miliary tuberculosis or abdominal tuberculosis. Isolated gall bladder tuberculosis is even rarer, can presents either as calculus or acalculus cholecystitis. Gall bladder tuberculosis presenting as a localized perforation with a sinus formation into anterior abdominal wall is unr...

Tuberculosis is a serious public health issue in developing countries. Hypercalcemia, though reported granulomatous disease, mild and asymptomatic tuberculosis. A 16 year old girl female presented with significant weight loss, loss of appetite on examination hepatosplenomegaly. Ultrasound abdomen (USG) showed mesenteric retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy hepatosplenomegaly ascites. We report an un...

Tuberculosis is a high-incidence public health problem in Peru. In our context, seen commonly as pulmonary infection. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis gastric rare, both primary or secondary infection, with just few case reports published about these kinds of presentations. This report presents 44-year-old female patient weight loss, dyspepsia, and abdominal pain. Upper endoscopy reveals antral poly...

BACKGROUND Abdominal tuberculosis remains a serious health threat. This retrospective report aimed to analyze patients after the development of the tuberculosis control program by the Center of Disease Control (Taiwan) in January 2000. The study was conducted at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung, Taiwan. METHODS Between January 2000 and December 2006, we evaluated 14 adult patients w...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES There is an increasing incidence of abdominal tuberculosis with the advent of HIV infection. This study was aimed at determining the pattern of presentation of abdominal tuberculosis on ultrasonography (USG) in HIV positive patients. METHODS This retrospective study was carried at the ART Centre, Sir Sunderlal Hospital, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, between March...