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Tubercular appendicitis - a case report.

Gupta S, Kaushik R, Kaur A, Attri AK

Department of General Surgery, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India. sandiv99@yahoo.co.uk.

ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis of the appendix remains a rarity despite the frequency of intestinal tuberculosis. We report a case of acute appendicitis that underwent appendectomy at our hospital, and the histopathology of the specimen revealed tuberculosis.

Published 16 August 2006 in World J Emerg Surg, 1: 22.
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