Intestinal tuberculosis in patients with fever of unknown origin in Egypt.

J Egypt Public Health Assoc

U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No.3, Cairo, Egypt.

Published: February 2007

Nineteen patients with intestinal tuberculosis were admitted to the Abbassia Fever Hospital in the period 1991-1997. Fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and weight loss were the most common symptoms. Small bowel radiology and colonoscopy were helpful in establishing the diagnosis. The difficulties in diagnosing tuberculous enteritis and the need to consider seriously the possibility of this disease in such patients is most important and is discussed.

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