Infection by Mycobacterium bovis is not infrequently identified in Mexico. Its relation to nonpasteurized milk products ingestion is well recognized with primary infection usually in the intestinal tract. The term "abdominal tuberculosis" includes peritoneal as well as primary and secondary intestinal tuberculosis. The clinical differentiation of these conditions is difficult. In this work, we ...

Abdominal tuberculosis is a common clinical entity in Indian subcontinent; however, hepatic tuberculosis in the absence of miliary abdominal tuberculosis is restricted to the case reports and small case series in English literature. It mimics common liver diseases like liver abscess and tumors. We report a case of 25-year-old immunocompetent female who presented with features of acute liver fai...

This report describes a case of diarrhea, abdominal pain, and strongyloidiasis in 33-year-old woman. She had co-existing tuberculosis. The role repeated stool microscopy patients with compromised immune system high index clinical suspicion for the parasite is important. Strongyloidiasis was not clinically suspected this patient diagnosed as part evaluation diarrhoea. But raises importance only ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous lymphadenitis is next to pulmonary tuberculosis as the most common cause of tuberculosis. Uganda genotype, one of the sub-lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the most prevalent cause of pulmonary tuberculosis in Uganda. We here investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis infected with M. tuberculosis Uganda genotyp...

Three patients admitted to the surgical wards of Johannesburg Hospital in whom abdominal tuberculosis was suspected are presented. In every case difficulties were encountered in diagnosis and treatment. Each case presentation is followed by a short commentary on relevant aspects of abdominal tuberculosis.

Hepatic tuberculosis usually accompanies pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Although isolated hepatic tuberculosis is a very rare condition, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a hepatic mass. Here, we report a 42-year-old woman presenting with weight loss, fever, night sweats, and a hepatic mass on the abdominal ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)....

Tuberculosis of the gallbladder is an extremely rare entity with only few case reports in the literature. Gallbladder tuberculosis is often found in association with gallstones or cystic duct obstruction and it may be a part of miliary tuberculosis, abdominal tuberculosis, primary isolated gallbladder tuberculosis and as acalculous cholecystitis in immunocmpromised patients. Preoperative diagno...

Diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis can be difficult because of its protean manifestations. It is often not considered in the differential diagnosis of abdominal disorders, particularly when tuberculosis is not p'resent elsewhere. In the era of computed tomography, although there has been much improvement in the evaluation of abdominal disorders, the differential diagnosis of an abdominal mass,...

Introduction: Tuberculosis was the major infectious cause of death in the world. Even though, in developing western countries it is less common the mortality rate of abdominal TB was because of less awareness, and lack of proper understanding Aim: The study was aimed to study the clinical profile of abdominal tuberculosis presenting to a tertiary care teaching hospital in south India. Materials...

Isolated tuberculosis of the pancreas is rare even in developing countries where abdominal tuberculosis continues to be prevalent. We present a case of pancreatic tuberculosis in an immunocompetent male with confounding imaging findings and non-contributory clinical details.