Addition of computed tomography chest increases the diagnosis rate in patients with suspected intestinal tuberculosis

Addition of computed tomography chest increases the diagnosis rate in patients with suspected intestinal tuberculosis

Background/Aims Intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) is difficult to diagnose due to poor sensitivity of definitive diagnostic tests. ITB may be associated with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) which may remain undetected on chest X-ray. We assessed the role of contrast enhanced computed tomography...

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Main Authors: Saurabh Kedia, Raju Sharma, Sudheer Kumar Vuyyuru, Deepak Madhu, Pabitra Sahu, Bhaskar Kante, Prasenjit Das, Ankur Goyal, Karan Madan, Govind Makharia, Vineet Ahuja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases 2022-04-01
Series:Intestinal Research
Subjects:
intestinal tuberculosis
crohn disease
computed tomography
diagnosis
Online Access:http://www.irjournal.org/upload/pdf/ir-2020-00104.pdf

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