Publications [#84821] of Chris W. Woods

Papers Published

1. JE Stout, CW Woods, AA Alvarez, A Berchuck, C Dukes Hamilton, Mycobacterium bovis peritonitis mimicking ovarian cancer in a young woman., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, United States, vol. 33 no. 4 (August, 2001), pp. E14-6, ISSN 1058-4838
   (last updated on 2004/06/16)

   Abstract:
   We describe a 27-year-old woman with peritonitis due to Mycobacterium bovis that initially appeared to be ovarian cancer. Clinicians should include this disease in the differential diagnosis of ovarian cancer and should consider laparoscopic diagnosis in the appropriate epidemiologic setting.

   Keywords:
   Adult • Diagnosis, Differential • Female • Humans • Laparoscopy • Mycobacterium bovis • Ovarian Neoplasms • Peritoneum • Peritonitis, Tuberculous • classification • diagnosis* • isolation & purification* • microbiology • pathology