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Intestinal Tuberculosis and Crohn’s Disease is Always a Diagnostic Challenge: A Case Report and Review of the Literature on the Importance of Fecal Mycobacterial Cultures and the Limitations of Latent Infection Testing

Intestinal tuberculosis (TB) may mimic Crohn’s disease (CD) and may be overlooked where TB is not endemic. We present a case of an elderly patient with partial small bowel obstruction caused by intestinal TB, initially suspected to have ileal stricturing CD. In our case, the patient had multiple hos...

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I publikationen:Cureus
Huvudupphovsmän: Kurnick, Adam, Bar, Nir, Maharshak, Nitsan
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Cureus 2019
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6823019/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720158
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5689
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