Intestinal Tuberculosis or Crohn's Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge Case Report
Ali Najafpour, Leila Hamzelou, Babak Sayad
Scientific Journal of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences · 2021-03
Abstract
Background and Aim: Crohn's disease is a chronic idiopathic disease in the category of gastrointestinal tract inflammation without any obvious reason. Clinical signs include abdominal pain, and diarrhea, which may be accompanied by a fistula or intestinal obstruction. Differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease and intestinal tuberculosis is a complex and difficult challenge.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Crohn's disease
- Chills
- Abdominal pain
- Differential diagnosis
- Fistula
- Disease
- Surgery
- Diarrhea
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Internal medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Radiology