A reformatted journal demands a new Editor-in-Chief. Over the last year, the paper-printed Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology has gone through a radical and successful transformation into a fully electronic open medium on an advanced IT platform. The time has thus become right for me to step down as Editor-in-Chief.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe concept of "abdominal tuberculosis" in this review refers to peritoneum and its reflections, gastrointestinal tract, abdominal lymphatic system, and solid visceral organs, as they are subject to varying degrees of involvement alone or in combination. Some features, including free or loculated ascites with thin-mobile septa, smooth peritoneal thickening and enhancement, misty mesentery with large lymph nodes, smudged omental involvement, and advanced ileocecal changes demonstrated by US, CT, or gastrointestinal series are deemed suggestive radiological findings. The diagnosis still requires a high index of suspicion, once the suggestive features have been demonstrated by imaging modalities.
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