A case series of gastric outlet obstruction secondary to tuberculosis: New diagnostic and treatment paradigm

Tuberculosis can involve any part of gastrointestinal tract. Gastro-duodenal involvement in tuberculosis is rare. We report four cases of gastric outlet obstruction due to tuberculosis. In all of these patients obstruction was due to extra-luminal compression from lymph-nodes. Clinical presentation...

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Main Authors: Rinkesh Kumar Bansal, Piyush Ranjan, Mandhir Kumar, Munish Sachdeva, Pooja Bakshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2014-07-01
Series:Journal of Digestive Endoscopy
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0976-5042.147499