Differentiating Crohn’s disease from intestinal tuberculosis

Table 2 Comparison of clinical features between Crohn’s disease and intestinal tuberculosis

Author/ year	Makharia et al[7], 2010		Li et al[17], 2011		Lei et al[18], 2013		Kedia et al[19], 2015		Jung et al[20], 2016		Yadav et al[21], 2017		Overall
Country	India		India		China		India		South Korea		India
Number of patients	CD	ITB	CD	ITB	CD	ITB	CD	ITB	CD	ITB	CD	ITB	CD	ITB
	53	53	130	122	103	88	54	50	158	98	88	69
Diarrhoea	85	37	66	47	63	57	69	18	68	20	43	16	43-85	16-57
Hemato-chezia	68	17	32	7	24	20	32	12	29	14	28	9	24-68	7-20
Constipation	8	49	4	13			10	26	4	5	-	-	4-10	5-49
Anorexia	-	-	-	-			57	78	-	-	-	-	57	78
Abdominal pain	70	91	86	81			78	94	82	61	80	90	70-86	61-94
Intestinal obstruction	26	55	29	10	21	11	26	48	-	-	31	51	21-31	10-55
Abdominal mass	-	-	-	-			0	0	3	1	53	60	-	-
Fever	28	42	30	43	24	34	30	38	25	13	23	37	23-30	13-43
Weight loss	55	83	72	76	48	60	93	90	31	15	66	75	31-93	15-90
Perianal disease	30	8	16	4			-	-	32	0	-	-	16-32	0-8
Night sweats			20	31			-	-	1	7	-	-	1-20	7-31
EIMs	45	13	11	2	29	9	-	-			-	-	11-45	2-13

All figures are percentages. Last column summarizes all the studies. CD: Crohn’s disease; ITB: Intestinal tuberculosis; EIMs: Extra-intestinal manifestations.