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Congenital Tuberculosis in a Neonate: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Though tuberculosis (TB) among pregnant women is not unusual in our country, documented cases of congenital tuberculosis are rare. Diagnosis is often difficult as signs and symptoms in a neonate are non- specific. Maternal history of tuberculosis is often missed, as many of them are asymptomatic. He...

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Autores principales: P, Raj, YK, Sarin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26023520
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description Though tuberculosis (TB) among pregnant women is not unusual in our country, documented cases of congenital tuberculosis are rare. Diagnosis is often difficult as signs and symptoms in a neonate are non- specific. Maternal history of tuberculosis is often missed, as many of them are asymptomatic. Here we present a neonate who was operated in view of intestinal obstruction which intra operatively showed disseminated abdominal tuberculosis with infected ascites.
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spelling pubmed-44203342015-05-28 Congenital Tuberculosis in a Neonate: A Diagnostic Dilemma P, Raj YK, Sarin J Neonatal Surg Case Report Though tuberculosis (TB) among pregnant women is not unusual in our country, documented cases of congenital tuberculosis are rare. Diagnosis is often difficult as signs and symptoms in a neonate are non- specific. Maternal history of tuberculosis is often missed, as many of them are asymptomatic. Here we present a neonate who was operated in view of intestinal obstruction which intra operatively showed disseminated abdominal tuberculosis with infected ascites. EL-MED-Pub 2014-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4420334/ /pubmed/26023520 Text en Copyright: © 2014 JNS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Congenital Tuberculosis in a Neonate: A Diagnostic Dilemma
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title_short Congenital Tuberculosis in a Neonate: A Diagnostic Dilemma
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