Mehmood Alam, Omer Farooq, Khawar Awais Butt.
Emergency presentation of abdominal tuberculous to the general surgeon.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;5(1):76-7.

To study the varied presentation of abdominal tuberculosis that have presented as acute abdomen. This is a case control analytic non-randomized study conducted at surgical unit 1, Department of Surgery, Lahore General Hospital Lahore June 2007 to June 2009. An analysis was done of the clinical presentation of patients who presented with acute abdomen and after histopathology report were diagnosed to be suffering from abdominal tuberculosis. A total 47 patients were included in the study. A low grad intermittent fever was observed in 39 patients, whereas there was no fever in 8 patients. Ten patients were on anti-tuberculosis therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis. (Secondary tuberculosis). All patients underwent emergency laparotomy. Perforation peritonitis was diagnosed in 18 /47 (38.29%) patients, intestinal obstruction in 14/47 (29.78%) cases, mass abdomen in 10/47 (21.27%) cases, and inflammation of abdominal organs in 3/47 (6.38%) cases and in 2/47 (4.25%) cases no diagnosis could be reached, non specific chronic inflammation.

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