INTESTINAL TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN

The authors report a retrospective study concerning 67 cases of intra- abdominal tuberculosis in children, observed over a 15 year period (19 80-1994) in the Casablanca Children's Hospital, Pediatric unit III, Th e patients' mean age was 12, and clinical signs were abdominal pain (6 1 %), diarrhea or constipation (55 %), fatigue, and weight loss. Tuber culosis was identified in the small intestine (25 cases), colon (15 ca ses), ileocoecum (7 cases), Pulmonary tuberculosis was associated in 2 9.8 % of these cases. Biopsy showed tuberculosis in 28.4 % of the case s, Ultrasound guided puncture allowed to diagnose either abdominal tub erculosis or Burkitt lymphoma was obtained by.