POSSIBILITIES OF ENDOSCOPIC STUDIES IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS

Abstract

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (BT), in comparison with pulmonary tuberculosis, is, as it were, in
the shadows due to low epidemiological indicators. In 1999, in Russia, the ratio of persons with pulmonary
and extrapulmonary tuberculosis who were registered at the dispensary was 12: 1. In highly developed
countries, HT is 20-40% in the overall structure of tuberculosis morbidity. In developed countries (Canada),
the main risk groups for BT are aborigines, immigrants from regions endemic for BT, and HIV-infected
patients. In developing countries with a high level of HIV infection in the population, there is a high
likelihood of a change in BT symptoms in case of mixed infection with both pathogens