Tuberculosis of the Colon
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چکیده
Although the colon shows, with all other tissues of the body, a liability to invasion by both miliary and caseous tubercle, it has also a peculiar form of reaction, so unlike ordinary tuberculous manifestations that it has until recently been confounded with ?carcinoma. In 1891, however, Hartmann, in France, and Billroth, at Vienna, drew attention to the occurrence of large, hard,
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