Tubercular appendicitis – a case report

Tuberculosis of the appendix remains a rarity despite the frequency of intestinal tuberculosis. We report a case of acute appendicitis that underwent appendectomy at our hospital, and the histopathology of the specimen revealed tuberculosis.

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Autores principales: Gupta, Sanjay, Kaushik, Robin, Kaur, Amanjit, Attri, Ashok Kumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1544321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16872481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-22
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Kaushik, Robin
Kaur, Amanjit
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spelling pubmed-15443212006-08-16 Tubercular appendicitis – a case report Gupta, Sanjay Kaushik, Robin Kaur, Amanjit Attri, Ashok Kumar World J Emerg Surg Case Report Tuberculosis of the appendix remains a rarity despite the frequency of intestinal tuberculosis. We report a case of acute appendicitis that underwent appendectomy at our hospital, and the histopathology of the specimen revealed tuberculosis. BioMed Central 2006-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC1544321/ /pubmed/16872481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-22 Text en Copyright © 2006 Gupta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kaur, Amanjit
Attri, Ashok Kumar
Tubercular appendicitis – a case report
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title_full Tubercular appendicitis – a case report
title_fullStr Tubercular appendicitis – a case report
title_full_unstemmed Tubercular appendicitis – a case report
title_short Tubercular appendicitis – a case report
title_sort tubercular appendicitis – a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1544321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16872481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-1-22
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