Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic tuberculosis is a rare disease even in endemic countries for tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of pancreatic tuberculosis from tuberculosis endemic zone presenting as obstructive jaundice mimicking pancreatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old male presented with fe...

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Autores principales: Khaniya, Sudeep, Koirala, Rabin, Shakya, Vikal Chandra, Adhikary, Shailesh, Regmi, Rajendra, Pandey, Sagar Raj, Agrawal, Chandra Shekhar
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205859
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-18
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author Khaniya, Sudeep
Koirala, Rabin
Shakya, Vikal Chandra
Adhikary, Shailesh
Regmi, Rajendra
Pandey, Sagar Raj
Agrawal, Chandra Shekhar
author_facet Khaniya, Sudeep
Koirala, Rabin
Shakya, Vikal Chandra
Adhikary, Shailesh
Regmi, Rajendra
Pandey, Sagar Raj
Agrawal, Chandra Shekhar
author_sort Khaniya, Sudeep
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description INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic tuberculosis is a rare disease even in endemic countries for tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of pancreatic tuberculosis from tuberculosis endemic zone presenting as obstructive jaundice mimicking pancreatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old male presented with features of malignant obstructive jaundice. Ultrasonography and computed tomography scan showed mass in the pancreatic head and uncinate process. He underwent a pancreatoduodencetomy. Histological examination showed typical features of tuberculosis. Antitubercular drugs were started and he remains well six months after surgery. CONCLUSION: Tuberculosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis to an obscure pancreatic mass in younger or middle aged patient residing in tuberculosis endemic zone.
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spelling pubmed-28262932010-02-23 Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature Khaniya, Sudeep Koirala, Rabin Shakya, Vikal Chandra Adhikary, Shailesh Regmi, Rajendra Pandey, Sagar Raj Agrawal, Chandra Shekhar Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic tuberculosis is a rare disease even in endemic countries for tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of pancreatic tuberculosis from tuberculosis endemic zone presenting as obstructive jaundice mimicking pancreatic cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 41-year-old male presented with features of malignant obstructive jaundice. Ultrasonography and computed tomography scan showed mass in the pancreatic head and uncinate process. He underwent a pancreatoduodencetomy. Histological examination showed typical features of tuberculosis. Antitubercular drugs were started and he remains well six months after surgery. CONCLUSION: Tuberculosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis to an obscure pancreatic mass in younger or middle aged patient residing in tuberculosis endemic zone. BioMed Central 2010-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2826293/ /pubmed/20205859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-18 Text en Copyright ©2010 Khaniya 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.
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Khaniya, Sudeep
Koirala, Rabin
Shakya, Vikal Chandra
Adhikary, Shailesh
Regmi, Rajendra
Pandey, Sagar Raj
Agrawal, Chandra Shekhar
Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking as carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205859
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-18
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