T.B.
DIGESTIVE TRACT
6.3.2 CLINICAL FEATURES
The most frequent symptoms is abdominal pain.
- There may be accompanying weight loss, abdominal distension and
vomiting.
- Another group of patients may present with weight loss,
anorexia, diarrhoea and fever.
- The pain intensity depends upon the site, duration and extent
of the lesion and the presence of complications.
- It is most frequently present in the umbical region which may
become generalised or localised to the right iliac fossa.
- The pain is often colicky in nature with nausea and vomiting
and visible peristalsis with lesions like stricture,hypertrophic
lesions or adhesions producing intestinal obstruction.
- Abdominal tenderness is frequently seen and can be elicited in
two-thirds of the patients, indicating extension of the disease
to the peritoneum and lymph nodes.
- A palpable mass, and visible peristalsis can be seen in over
one-third of the patients.
- The mass can be due to hypertrophic ileoceacal tuberculosis or
enlargement of lymph nodes and matting of loops of the small
bowel.
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