Acute Peritonitis: A Rare Complication Revealing Intestinal Tuberculosis
M Sabbah, D Trad, C Jemmali, Raja Jouini, H Elloumi, N Bibani, A Ouakaa, Dalila Gargouri
Journal of Spleen and Liver Research · 2019-09
Abstract
Intestinal tuberculosis diagnosis is often difficult because of non-specific symptoms, miming many other conditions such as malignancy, infectious disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. Free intestinal perforation is an uncommon but life-threatening complication of intestinal tuberculosis, associated with high morbidity and mortality.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- INTESTINAL TUBERCULOSIS
- Complication
- Malignancy
- Perforation
- Disease
- Peritonitis
- Surgery
- Internal medicine
- Intensive care medicine
- Gastroenterology