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Case 2 -- A 42-Year-Old Man Presented to Kijabe Mission Hospital With a Prolonged History of Abdominal Pain and Weight Loss

[Medscape General Medicine 5(4), 2003. © 2003 Medscape]


Figure 1. At laparotomy.

Figure 2. Cross-section of resected omentum.

Figure 3. Histopathology showed granulomatous inflammation.

Figure 4. Ziehl-Neelsen staining identified multiple acid-fast bacilli, consistent with a diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis.