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Khirurgiia (Sofiia)
; (6): 65-8, 2010.
Article
in Bulgarian
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21972722
ABSTRACT
Nowadays tuberculosis--TB is most popular chronic infections disease in the world. The mortality is high, 3 million approximately death every year in the world. TB affects predominantly the lungs (pulmonary--90%) and exra-pulmonary) skin; bones; joints; urinary tract-UT; gastro intestinal tract-GIT; abdominal TB. There is an increase in diagnosed cases of pulmonary TB last years in Bulgaria. There are very rare cases of diagnosed abdominal TB described. We present a case operated from us in Multi Pro File Hospital Cherven Bryag. A 54 years old male patient with peritonitis due to perforated intestinal TB and upper intestinal fistulas. The patient was not aware of suffering from pulmonary TB in the past.