Dilemma Continues – Abdominal Tuberculosis or Abdomininal Lymphoma
Tuberculosis
is a disease that has long been there since ages and is a threat as it was.
Abdominal tuberculosis is espacially common in endemic regions and with its
varying and non-specific presentation may mimic a variety of disorders ranging
from benign to malignant. It has a concealing effect as well and tends to mask
diseases that are of entirely different character. All of this creates a
diagnostic dilemma for the clinician. we present a similar case which was as
non-specific as it could be. We presented here a patient who after undergoing
more than 3 colonoscopies, being labelled lymphoma twice, registered for
chemotherapy and most of the conventional tubercular markers being negative,
still turned out to be a case of abdominal tuberculosis.
Keywords:
Tuberculosis Lymphoma, Colonoscopy, Histopathology,
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- ISSN: 2146-3158
- Başlangıç: 2011
- Yayıncı: Sağlık Araştırmaları Derneği
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