Intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis: report of two cases.

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
O Fräki, P Peltokallio

Abstract

One hundred and seven cases of abdominal tuberculosis were analyzed. There were no specific laboratory or x-ray findings pathognomonic of abdominal tuberculosis. Leukopenia was often found, but was nonspecific. An abdominal tumor was often palpable. A great rarity in our series was profuse hemorrhage from a jejunal tuberculous ulcer; the patient had to be subjected to an emergency operation. In another case tuberculosis appeared in a side-to-side small intestinal anastomosis and in its blind ends, which had developed as a late complication. The diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis must be confirmed by histologic examination of biopsy specimens; if the results are inconclusive, acid-fast bacilli must be seen or culture should be positive. Guinea-pig inoculation is rarely positive, probably owing to the low virulence of the tuberculous bacteria in abdominal tuberculosis. Good results are obtained with chemotherapy in both intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis. The complications, obstruction being most usual, must be surgically treated. Resection of the affected segment is the best surgical procedure. For ileocecal tuberculosis, right hemicolectomy was performed. According to the authors, roentgenographic evidence of tuberculosis...Continue Reading

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