[Tuberculous perforation of the small bowel].

The authors present their experience with two cases of acute peritonitis scattered characteristic lesions were secondary to the tuberculous of the bowel. It is noteworthy, as far as these two cases are concerned, the rarity of intestinal tuberculous fistulation occurrence in addition to the peculiarity of both their preoperative course with its related diagnostic and operative timing difficulties and their postsurgical recurrent perforation complicated evolution. This article also pin-points the special management problems due to the gravity of these cases.