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ReviewCurrent infectious disease reports2016

Hepatic and Intra-abdominal Tuberculosis: 2016 Update.

Richard P T Evans, Moustafa Mabrouk Mourad, Lee Dvorkin, Simon R Bramhall

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Review in Current infectious disease reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. [Abdominal tuberculosis: a 13-year experience].The Pan African medical journal · 2025
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  17. [Treatment of abdominal tuberculosis : Background, diagnostics and treatment of a global problem].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Richard P T EvansWye Valley NHS Trust, Department of Surgery, The County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford, HR1 2ER, UK.
Moustafa Mabrouk MouradWye Valley NHS Trust, Department of Surgery, The County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford, HR1 2ER, UK.
Lee DvorkinNorth Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK.
Simon R BramhallWye Valley NHS Trust, Department of Surgery, The County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford, HR1 2ER, UK. Simon.Bramhall@wvt.nhs.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection affects nearly 10 million people a year and causes 1.5 million deaths. TB is common in the immunosuppressed population with 12 % of all new diagnoses occurring in human immune deficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. Extra-pulmonary TB occurs in 12 % of patients with active TB infection of which 3.5 % is hepatobiliary and 6-38 % is intra-abdominal. Hepatobiliary and intra-abdominal TB can present with a myriad of non-specific symptoms, and therefore, diagnosis requires a high level of suspicion. Accurate and rapid diagnosis requires a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach using radiology, interventional radiology, surgery and pathology services. Treatment of TB is predominantly medical, yet surgery plays an important role in managing the complications of hepatobiliary and intra-abdominal TB.

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Hepatobiliary tuberculosisIntra-abdominal tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosis

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PMID27796776

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