Abdominal tuberculosis is a rare disease presented by non-specific symptoms, laboratory and radiography findings that make it difficult to diagnose. Surgical treatment of 11 patients (8 males, 3 females, age range 27-74 years), with abdominal tuberculosis was analyzed retrospectively and the literature was reviewed. Urgent surgical intervention was done in 6 cases due to peritonitis, while in 5...

Between 1973 and 1983 abdominal tuberculosis was responsible for the admission of 90 patients to a west London district general hospital. Over the same period Crohn's disease was newly diagnosed in 102 hospitalised patients. In contrast with Crohn's disease, the majority (75) of tuberculous patients were Asian immigrants. Mean duration of residence in the United Kingdom was 4 +/- 0.9 (SD) years...

According to the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion people are estimated to be infected with tuberculosis (TB) and approximately 95% of tuberculosis cases occur in developing countries. Extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis constitute approximately one-sixth of all cases and the prevalence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) seems to be rising, particularly due to increasing prevalen...