A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report

BACKGROUND: This is an unusual case of a 26-year-old P2L2 lady who presented with chief complaints of pain abdomen and irregular bleeding p/v with history of post-coital bleeding. CASE REPORT: On per speculum examination, cervix was replaced by an irregular friable growth, which was bleeding on touc...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Swati, Madan, Monika, Leekha, Nitin, Raghunandan, Chitra
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-161
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author Agrawal, Swati
Madan, Monika
Leekha, Nitin
Raghunandan, Chitra
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Madan, Monika
Leekha, Nitin
Raghunandan, Chitra
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description BACKGROUND: This is an unusual case of a 26-year-old P2L2 lady who presented with chief complaints of pain abdomen and irregular bleeding p/v with history of post-coital bleeding. CASE REPORT: On per speculum examination, cervix was replaced by an irregular friable growth, which was bleeding on touch. A clinical diagnosis of carcinoma cervix was made but the cervical biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation with presence of acid-fast bacilli on cervical smear consistent with tuberculosis. The patient responded to six months of anti-tubercular therapy. CONCLUSION: To conclude, cervical tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of carcinoma cervix in young women with suspicious cervix.
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spelling pubmed-27831172009-11-28 A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report Agrawal, Swati Madan, Monika Leekha, Nitin Raghunandan, Chitra Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: This is an unusual case of a 26-year-old P2L2 lady who presented with chief complaints of pain abdomen and irregular bleeding p/v with history of post-coital bleeding. CASE REPORT: On per speculum examination, cervix was replaced by an irregular friable growth, which was bleeding on touch. A clinical diagnosis of carcinoma cervix was made but the cervical biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation with presence of acid-fast bacilli on cervical smear consistent with tuberculosis. The patient responded to six months of anti-tubercular therapy. CONCLUSION: To conclude, cervical tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of carcinoma cervix in young women with suspicious cervix. BioMed Central 2009-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2783117/ /pubmed/19946532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-161 Text en Copyright ©2009 Agrawal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Agrawal, Swati
Madan, Monika
Leekha, Nitin
Raghunandan, Chitra
A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title_full A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title_fullStr A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title_short A rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
title_sort rare case of cervical tuberculosis simulating carcinoma cervix: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-161
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