[Peritoneal tuberculosis in adults. Study of 207 cases].

The authors report their experience about 207 cases of peritoneal tuberculosis in the adult, diagnosed and treated at the University Hospital Ibn Rochd in Casablanca, between january 1976 and october 1986. It concerned 139 women and 68 men--mean age 29.5 years. The most frequent clinical form was painful and febrile ascites (70% of the cases). The diagnosis was established most of the time by laparoscopy (180 examinations) which disclosed peritoneal granulations in 87% of the cases. Laparoscopy was impossible in 27 cases. Evolution was favorable in all patients except 5: 3 deaths, one relapse and one evolution to a fibro-adhesive form. During the long-term evolution in 50 patients (follow-up exceeding two years): one patient developed an occlusion and 7 had gynecological complications.