Abdominal tuberculosis in children: experience over a decade.

ABSTRACT

This presentation deals with 110 surgically proven cases of abdominal tuberculosis in the pediatric age group. The protean clinical profiles and complications of the disease entity made the clinical diagnosis difficult; the investigations were also found non-pathognomonic. The most common type of pathology seen was adhesive variety followed by nodal type. Strictures of the small bowel were uncommon and hyperplastic variety was rarely seen in the present series. The pathogenesis relating to various varieties has been suggested based on the vast experience from a single institution.