Intestinal tuberculosis or Crohn’s disease: a review of the diagnostic models designed to differentiate between these two gastrointestinal diseases
Differentiating Crohn’s disease (CD) from intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) is a diagnostic dilemma, particularly in regions where ITB is prevalent and CD incidence is increasing, because both diseases can present quite similarly, and diagnostic tests to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis in tissue sam...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases
2021-01-01
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Series: | Intestinal Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.irjournal.org/upload/pdf/ir-2019-09142.pdf |