Splenic tuberculosis
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splenic tuberculosis: a case report
splenic tuberculosis is a rare entity, particularly among immunocompetent hosts. hererin, we present a 23 year-old man who was reffered with fever of unknown origin and eventually diagnosed to have splenic tuberculosis with an involvement of a single axillary lymph node as the sole site disease in the other organs.despite two months of treatment with antituberculous agents due to necrotising gr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.75.888.578