Abstract: Objective To explore clinical diagnosis and surgical treatment of intestinal tuberculosis based on 23 clinincal cases. Methods The clinical data of 23 patients with intestinal tuberculosis were collected in our hospital from 2008.1 to 2010.12. Results Twenty-three patients, 4 intestinal tuberculosis cases were diagnosed by colonoscopy pathology,combining with the medicial history, radiographic and laboratory examination, 12 of them were suspected cases, the rest 7 which couldn’t be distinguished with abdominal tumor or needed emergency surgery failed to make a definite diagnosis before operation. All cases were treated with anti-tuberculosis drugs postoperatively, 20 of them were cured or improved except 3 couldn’t be followed up.   Conclusion Early diagnosis, standard antituberculous therapy, and optimal surgical operation are benefit to the intestinal tuberculosis treatment.

Key words: Tuberculosis, intestinal/diagnosis, Tuberculosis, intestinal/surgery