Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 3-2013. A 72-year-old woman with abdominal pain and distention after peritoneal dialysis

N Engl J Med. 2013 Jan 24;368(4):375-85. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1208142.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology
  • Aged
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dilatation, Pathologic / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteomyelitis / complications
  • Osteomyelitis / pathology*
  • Peritoneal Dialysis / adverse effects
  • Peritoneum / pathology*
  • Peritonitis, Tuberculous / complications
  • Peritonitis, Tuberculous / pathology*
  • Radiography
  • Sternum / pathology*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / pathology