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Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence

Isolated tuberculosis of the pancreas is rare even in developing countries where abdominal tuberculosis continues to be prevalent. We present a case of pancreatic tuberculosis in an immunocompetent male with confounding imaging findings and non-contributory clinical details.

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Autores principales: Arora, Ankur, Mukund, Amar, Garg, Hitendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22764282
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0054
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spelling pubmed-33910312012-07-12 Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence Arora, Ankur Mukund, Amar Garg, Hitendra Am J Trop Med Hyg Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine Isolated tuberculosis of the pancreas is rare even in developing countries where abdominal tuberculosis continues to be prevalent. We present a case of pancreatic tuberculosis in an immunocompetent male with confounding imaging findings and non-contributory clinical details. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2012-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3391031/ /pubmed/22764282 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0054 Text en ©The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Re-use License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arora, Ankur
Mukund, Amar
Garg, Hitendra
Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title_full Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title_fullStr Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title_short Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Rare Occurrence
title_sort isolated pancreatic tuberculosis: a rare occurrence
topic Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22764282
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0054
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