%0 Journal Article
%T Multiple intestinal perforations as a primary manifestation of abdominal tuberculosis in a HIV-infected patient
%A Amir Hossein Sarrami
%A Mohsen Sharifi
%A Majid Ahsan
%A Noushin Afsharmoghaddam
%J Journal of Surgical Case Reports
%D 2010
%I JSCR Publishing
%X Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is the sixth commonest extra-pulmonary TB form after lymphatic, genitourinary, bone and joint, miliary and meningeal tuberculosis. Perforation is a serious and uncommon complication of abdominal tuberculosis which can occur even during the treatment. A 30-year-old man was admitted with a three-day history of abdominal pain who had emergency surgery for multiple perforations of the distal ileum.
%K tuberculosis
%K abdomen
%K pain
%K emergency
%U http://jscr.co.uk/2010/12/colorectal-surgery/multiple-intestinal-perforations-as-a-primary-manifestation-of-abdominal-tuberculosis-in-a-hiv-infected-patient/