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Abdulnasir Al-Otaibi1, Maha Almuneef, Tahir Hameed.
Abstract
We report the case of a 10-year-old girl who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. She was diagnosed as having extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) with multifocal osteomyelitis of the spine and ribs, peritonitis and intestinal involvement. We describe the clinical presentation of this unusual constellation of the disease in the absence of pulmonary involvement in a child and discuss the diagnostic challenges and treatment of these rare forms of TB.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22541270 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2011.11.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Public Health ISSN: 1876-0341 Impact factor: 3.718