Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 8
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Clinical features and diagnostic approaches for abdominal tuberculosis: five-year experience from a non-tuberculosis-designated hospital in China

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.8022/2021

Jin Wenting, Ma Yuyan, Shi Qingfeng, Zhang Yao, Yao Yumeng, Su Yi, Huang Yingnan, Miao Qing, Wang Qingqing, Wang Mengran, Li Bing, Luo Yu, Cai Sishi, Li Na, Bao Rong, Gao Xiaodong, Pan Jue, Hu Bijie,

Abstract
Background and purpose: abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is a common form of extrapulmonary TB but it is still a diagnostic dilemma in clinical practice. This study aimed to highlight the clinical features and diagnostic approaches for abdominal TB. Methods: seventy cases of diagnosed abdominal TB were retrospectively collected between August 1st, 2015 and June 30th, 2020. They were classified as peritoneal TB, lymph node TB, gastrointestinal TB, visceral TB or mixed TB. Results: eighteen patients were diagnosed with peritoneal TB, nine with lymph node TB, five with gastrointestinal TB, two with visceral TB and 36 with mixed TB. More than 65 % of the patients had tuberculosis of other sites except the abdomen. The median diagnosis time was 60 days. Ascites (58.6 %), abdominal distension (48.6 %), weight loss (44.3 %) and fever (42.9 %) were the most common symptoms. The overall microbiological and histological detection rates were 70.0 % and 38.6 %, respectively. The non-ascite samples yielded a higher microbiological confirmation rate (63.6 %) than the total samples (40.8 %). Diagnosis was confirmed histologically in 18 patients (69.2 %). Forty-five cases (64.3 %) were clinically diagnosed. Invasive procedures such as surgery (6/7), percutaneous biopsy (7/7) and endoscopy in lymph node TB (4/5) had high confirmation rates. Conclusions: the diagnosis of abdominal TB should be reached by a combination of clinical, laboratory, radiological, microbiological and pathological findings.
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Received: 07/04/2021

Accepted: 02/12/2021

Online First: 10/12/2021

Published: 27/07/2022

Article revision time: 208 days

Article Online First time: 247 days

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