Operative therapy – 2nd order
- Laparoscopy (abdominal endoscopy) for diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis.
- If necessary, laparatomy (abdominal incision) for complications with stricturoplasty (surgical procedure to widen a stricture (high-grade narrowing) on the small intestine), bypass or resection because of obstructions that may appear clinically as scarred narrowing (these are the result of the healing process under antituberculotic therapy).
Note: All surgical measures are only to correct complications; the actual therapy of tuberculosis is primarily medicinal.
