Table 1.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, clinical presentations, laboratory findings, colonoscopy findings, computed tomography findings, and histopathology findings in patients diagnosed with intestinal tuberculosis.
Fig 1.
Endoscopic (A and B), computed tomography (C), and pathological findings (D) from the patient with intestinal tuberculosis. A and B showed a large ulcer involving the IC valve. C was an axial contrast-enhanced CT scan showing moderate segmental wall thickening with increased mucosal and mural enhancement at the terminal ileum with associated increasing IC valve thickness. D showed ulcerated ileal mucosa with dense chronic inflammatory cell infiltration and aggregates of epithelioid histiocytes (granuloma) with central necrosis (arrow).
Fig 2.
Diagnostic methods of intestinal tuberculosis of patients.
Fig 3.
Diagnostic methods in 108 patients undergoing colonoscopy.
Table 2.
The sensitivity of each diagnostic modality used to evaluate tissue biopsies obtained by colonoscopy and stool specimens for mycobacteria.
Table 3.
Stool test results compared to tissue biopsy results in patients who underwent both stool testing for mycobacteria and evaluation of tissue biopsies obtained during colonoscopy to diagnose intestinal tuberculosis (N = 31).