NAZLIM AKTUĞ DEMİR, ŞUA SÜMER, Özge YİĞİT, Onur URAL

Gözden kaçabilen bir enfeksiyon: Abdominal tüberküloz

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, en sık pulmoner tutulumla seyreden ve halen dünyada yaygın olarak görülmeye devam eden bir en- feksiyon hastalığıdır. Ekstrapulmoner tüberküloz tüm tüberküloz vakalarının %15-20'sini oluştururken, abdominal tüberküloz ise ekstapulmoner tüberküloz olgularının yalnızca %3'ünü kapsar. Bu yazıda yüksek ateş, halsizlik, iştahsızlık şikayetleri ile başvuran, dirençli ateşin nedenini bulmaya yönelik yapılan araştırmalar sırasında izole karaciğer ve dalak tutulumu saptanan bir tüberküloz olgusu sunulmuştur

An infection that can be overlooked: Abdominal tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an infectious disease which progresses mostly with pulmonary involvement and continues to be seen extensively worldwide. While extrapulmonary tuberculosis comprises 15-20% of all tuberculosis incidences, abdominal tuberculosis comprises only 3% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases. This paper presents a case of tuberculosis where the patient had complaints of high fever, weariness and loss of appetite and was diagnosed with isolated liver and spleen involvement during the examinations carried out to find the reason for such resistant high fever

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