Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a wide variety of presentations. A rare occurrence is gastrointestinal tuberculosis. It may occur anywhere along the alimentary canal but usually occurs in the ileocecum with rare involvement of the appendix.

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Autores principales: Okoro, Kelechukwu U., De La Espriella, Maria Gomez, Grider, Douglas J., Baffoe-Bonnie, Anthony W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6068258
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author Okoro, Kelechukwu U.
De La Espriella, Maria Gomez
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Baffoe-Bonnie, Anthony W.
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spelling pubmed-58455282018-03-20 Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess Okoro, Kelechukwu U. De La Espriella, Maria Gomez Grider, Douglas J. Baffoe-Bonnie, Anthony W. Case Rep Med Case Report Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a wide variety of presentations. A rare occurrence is gastrointestinal tuberculosis. It may occur anywhere along the alimentary canal but usually occurs in the ileocecum with rare involvement of the appendix. Hindawi 2018-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5845528/ /pubmed/29560012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6068258 Text en Copyright © 2018 Kelechukwu U. Okoro et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title_full Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title_fullStr Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title_short Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess
title_sort tuberculous enteritis presenting as acute appendicitis and perirectal abscess
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6068258
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