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Introduction: The incidence of abdominal tuberculosis is a common disease in India. Aim: to study clinicalcoepidemiological profile of abdominal tuberculosis. Methods: This retrospective and prospective study was conducted on 50 patients of abdominal tuberculosis admitted in various surgical wards of the department of surgery at, GMC, Bundi, over a period of 1 year. Results: The mean age was 38.5 yrs with female preponderance. Pain abdomen was the commonest symptom seen in all patients followed by loss of appetite. 20% of the patients had active pulmonary TB. Mesenteric lymph nodes (90%) present in almost all cases. Conclusion: Abdominal tuberculosis is prevalent in middle age, low socioeconomic status. Keywords: abdominal tuberculosis, clinical profile, epidemiology. Introduction: The incidence of abdominal tuberculosis is a common disease in India. There is abundant proof that abdominal tuberculosis is a disease which is as old as civilization itself. Considerable advent of specific anti tubercular chemotherapy and improved economic conditions tuberculosis of abdomen has declined considerably in the west but still it is a major health hazard in India. In India the prevalence of disease is about four per thousand populations with mortality of 60-80 per lac population every year.1

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