title: Tuberculous peritonitis in an adolescent male.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the use of a new diagnostic approach in children with tuberculous peritonitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 14-year-old boy with tuberculous peritonitis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  None of the new diagnostic techniques helped us to make our diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More experience of using the new diagnostic techniques will be necessary before they supersede invasive procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Etterbeek-Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lenoir
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Vandenplas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D014395:Peritonitis, Tuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000473:pathology