title: Abdominal tuberculosis with fatal gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Ndububa
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Olasode
authors.forename: L O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Olatunde
mesh_terms: 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