ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2016
Tuberculosis terminal ileitis: A forgotten entity mimicking Crohn's disease.
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- Abdominal tuberculosis in children: a systematic review on current advances.Pediatric surgery international · 2025Pooled it
- The Overlap Between Crohn's Disease and Intestinal Tuberculosis: A Never-Ending Story.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Steroid-Responsive Bradycardia in a Patient with Presumptive Isolated Intestinal Tuberculosis: A Case Report.Clinical medicine insights. Case reports · 2026Article
- Uncommon ileal perforation due to intestinal tuberculosis: A case report and literature review.Medicine · 2025Review
- Primary small intestine angiosarcoma mimicking Crohn's disease.BMJ case reports · 2024Article
- Tuberculosis of abdominal lymph nodes, peritoneum, and GI tract: a malignancy mimic.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2022Review
- Systematic reporting of computed tomography enterography/enteroclysis as an aid to reduce diagnostic dilemma when differentiating between intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease: A prospective study at a tertiary care hospital.JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2021Article
- A Critical Appraisal of Clinicopathological, Imaging, and GeneXpert Profiles of Surgical Referrals with Pediatric Abdominal Tuberculosis.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric SurgeonsArticle
- Right Iliac Fossa Pain other than Appendicitis: A Pictorial Review.Journal of medical ultrasoundReview
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Abstract
Intestinal tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon lesion for which differential diagnosis can be difficult. We present a case of a 53-year-old male and a systematic review of the literature, from clinical symptoms to differential diagnosis, unusual complications and therapy. The patient was admitted to the hospital with signs of acute abdomen as a result of a perforated terminal ileitis. Based on the skip lesions of the terminal ileum and cecum, Crohn's disease (CD) was clinically suspected. An emergency laparotomy and right colectomy with terminal ileum resection was performed and systematic antibiotherapy was prescribed. The patient's status deteriorated and he died 4 d after the surgical intervention. At the autopsy, TB ileotyphlitis was discovered. The clinical criteria of the differential diagnosis between intestinal TB and CD are not very well established. Despite the large amount of published articles on this subject, only 50 papers present new data regarding intestinal TB. Based on these studies and our experience, we present an update focused on the differential diagnosis and therapy of intestinal TB. We highlight the importance of considering intestinal TB as a differential diagnosis for inflammatory bowel disease. Despite the modern techniques of diagnosis and therapy, the fulminant evolution of TB can still lead to a patient's death.
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