[en] This case report introduces a 26-year-old male IV drug abuser with fever, abdominal pain and distension referred to the emergency ward. According to these findings, abdominal tenderness and involuntary guarding, an explorative laparotomy was performed. Multiple biopsies of omentum, peritoneum and liver were taken. Pathologic assessment of multiple biopsies confirmed intra-abdominal TB infection.
Disciplines :
Immunology & infectious disease
Author, co-author :
Sabooni, Keivan; Kordestan University of Medical Sciences, Kordestan, Iran
Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège ; Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Pirmohammad, Hossein; Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Afrasiabian, Shahla; Kordestan University of Medical Sciences, Kordestan, Iran
Moghbel, Niloofar; Kordestan University of Medical Sciences, Kordestan, Iran
Shahverdi, Ehsan; Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: shahverdi_ehsan@yahoo.com
Konjedi, Mohammad Amin; Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Shahverdi, Ashkan; Students' Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Language :
English
Title :
Tuberculosis peritonitis with features of acute abdomen in HIV infection.
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