title: [Semeiotics of abdominal tuberculosis].
abstract: Examination of 119 patients with abdominal tuberculosis permitted the description of the characteristic semiotics of the illness. Today the patients with abdominal tuberculosis are mainly women of child-bearing age with a long-term tuberculosis catamnesis and intoxication, with a history of tuberculosis of different sites, those suffering from tuberculosis or its sequels at present (64%), those with pains (94%), discomfort or swelling of the abdomen (79%), malfunction of the gastrointestinal tract (65%), weight loss (86%), malnutrition (72%), anemia (63%), not infrequently with inflammatory induration (43%) or ascites in the abdominal cavity (39%). In addition to this characteristic semiotics, the patients with abdominal tuberculosis may demonstrate the most different and unexpected symptoms up to acute abdomen (23%). To make differential diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, one has often to resort to diagnostic laparotomy, laparoscopy, Koch's test and to trial therapy.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen; D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014395:Peritonitis, Tuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D014384:Tuberculosis, Female Genital / Q000175:diagnosis; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014386:Tuberculosis, Hepatic / Q000175:diagnosis; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000175:diagnosis; D014400:Tuberculosis, Splenic / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Semiotika abdominal'nogo tuberkuleza.