Abdominal tuberculosis with fatal gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.
We describe a patient who presented with chronic diarrhoea and features of malabsorption, suspected clinically to be due to abdominal tuberculosis and who developed fatal haematochezia a few days into a therapeutic trial of antituberculous chemotherapy. At autopsy, multiple tuberculosis ulcers were found in the jejunum, ileum and descending colon.
Ndububa
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DA
Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Olasode
B J
BJ
Olatunde
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LO
D000328:Adult; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D007579:Jejunal Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology