Tuberculose esofágica primária: relato de caso

Esophageal tuberculosis is an extremely rare event, accounting for 0.2 percent of these cases affecting the esophagus. Most of them are secondary to pulmonary disease. The authors present a case of primary esophageal tuberculosis in a 40 years old HIV-positive female.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sérgio Ricardo Pioner, Daniel Rech, Lucas Menegotto, Felipe Pioner Machado, Ciana Santos Indicatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
Series:Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912007000500017&lng=en&tlng=en