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tuberculous peritonitis
Etiology:
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Laboratory:
1) ascitic fluid analysis:
- elevated ascitic fluid leukocytes with predominance of lymphocytes
Special laboratory:
- laparoscopy with biopsy, culture & histologic examination of peritoneal lesions if ascitic fluid suggests tuberculous peritonitis
General
secondary bacterial peritonitis (including tuberculous peritonitis)
tuberculosis
References
- Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 28th ed, Ewald & McKenzie
(eds), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1995, pg 275, 276, 312, 378
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 326
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998