Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess

Okoro, Kelechukwu U.; De La Espriella, Maria Gomez; Grider, Douglas J.; Baffoe-Bonnie, Anthony W.

Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess

dc.contributor.author	Okoro, Kelechukwu U.	en
dc.contributor.author	De La Espriella, Maria Gomez	en
dc.contributor.author	Grider, Douglas J.	en
dc.contributor.author	Baffoe-Bonnie, Anthony W.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-30T12:33:52Z	en
dc.date.available	2018-04-30T12:33:52Z	en
dc.date.issued	2018-02-25	en
dc.date.updated	2018-04-29T08:40:45Z	en
dc.description.abstract	Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a wide variety of presentations. A rare occurrence is gastrointestinal tuberculosis. It may occur anywhere along the alimentary canal but usually occurs in the ileocecum with rare involvement of the appendix.	en
dc.description.version	Published version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Kelechukwu U. Okoro, Maria Gomez De La Espriella, Douglas J. Grider, and Anthony W. Baffoe-Bonnie, “Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess,” Case Reports in Medicine, vol. 2018, Article ID 6068258, 5 pages, 2018. doi:10.1155/2018/6068258	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6068258	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82943	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Hindawi	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright © 2018 Kelechukwu U. Okoro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.title	Tuberculous Enteritis Presenting as Acute Appendicitis and Perirectal Abscess	en
dc.title.serial	Case Reports in Medicine	en
dc.type	Article - Refereed	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en