Abdominal involvement in tuberculosis

Emerg Radiol. 2002 Oct;9(4):225-30. doi: 10.1007/s10140-002-0236-5. Epub 2002 Aug 24.

Abstract

Rising incidence of disseminated and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), especially in immunocompromised hosts and patients with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, has resulted in an increase of unusual clinical and radiographic presentations of TB. With CT being a common part of emergency room (ER) evaluation of abdominal pain, it is imperative that radiologists be able to recognize abdominal presentations of TB. We discuss and illustrate typical and less common CT manifestations of tuberculosis in the abdomen to help ER radiologists in this task.