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Abdominal mycobacterial infection mimicking acute appendicitis in an AIDS patient
K Visvanathan1, P D Jones, P Truskett
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of abdominal mycobacterial infection mimicking acute appendicitis in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patient is reported. The case illustrates the unusual aetiology of an acute abdomen in this population and the report reviews the aetiology of surgical abdominal pain in HIV infection and discusses the management of abdominal mycobacterial infections.