Abstract
IN the absence of active pulmonary tuberculosis the diagnosis of tuberculous enteritis is usually definitively established only after exploratory laparotomy. This report concerns a patient with tuberculous enteritis in whom the clinical diagnosis was confirmed by isolation of tubercle bacilli from thoracic-duct lymph.Case ReportB.S., a 26-year-old Negro, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital on June 27, 1962, because of postprandial bloating and epigastric and mid-abdominal soreness of 5 months' duration. These symptoms were initially accompanied by 4 or 5 nonfloating, watery stools each day and moderate tenesmus. Without treatment the abdominal pain subsided, and the diarrhea disappeared. Three months . . .
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