Ultrasound in diagnose & treatment follow-up of abdominal pain due to intestinal tuberculosis

N 546(14-85y, x36,5y), 312(57%) female, 234(43%) male.

Preceding treatment

All with recurrent colic abdomen pain (some very severe), diarrhea/obstipation, distention,
“doughy dam-board phenomena”, constitutional symptoms, cough and X-ray suggestive
lung tuberculosis. Intestinal ultrasound on the tympanic area were normal, but on
dullness pain area were: a/hypo-peristaltic, irregular thickening heterogenic hypo-echoic,
irregular margin of the wall, loss differentiation of the wall layers, with several
oval/round nodular structures (patchy hyper-echoic non-shadowing with an irregular
rim of lower echo-density, those suggestive granuloma process) within the wall and
narrowing of the lumen.