Abdominal tuberculous lymphadenitis simulating pancreatis cancer
Casolino, V.; Arcuri, V.; Fontana, I.; Tommasi, G.V.; Manolitsi, O.; Valente, R.; Valente, U.
Il Giornale di Chirurgia 18(6-7): 353-354
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-9005 PMID: 9296597 Document Number: 6087
The Authors report the case of a patient symptomatic for fever, weight loss and abdominal pain submitted to abdominal sonography and CT which identified a mass of the pancreatic head. The patient underwent laparotomy plus biopsy; the istologic and bacteriological diagnosis demonstrated a tuberculous lymphoadenitis in spite of a normal cutaneous tuberculin test. Abdominal localization of TBC infection therefore is increasing in epidemiological studies, and thus it must be included in the differential diagnosis of subdiaphragmatic disease.
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