4th time is a charm: Peritoneal tuberculosis and how difficult is to reach it

Abstract

authors as "the great mimic". Peritoneal involvement is often accompanied by abdominal pain (80-95%) often associated with fever(40-90%), weight loss (40-90%)and anorexia (30%), and this combination may occur for many months. Among the known risk factors are patients diagnosed with cirrhosis, human immunodeficiency virus infection, diabetes mellitus, malignancies, immunosuppressive patients, and patients undergoing dialysis. In most cases, the infection occurs through the reactivation of a