Tuberculosis of the urachal cyst

Urachal cysts are uncommon. Rarely, these cysts can become infected. Tuberculosis of the urachal cyst is exceedingly rare, with only one case reported previously in the English language literature. Here we report the case of a 23-year-old male who presented with an infra-umbilical mass that turned o...

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Autores principales: Jindal, Tarun, Kamal, Mir Reza, Jha, Jayesh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23346004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2013.28.1.103
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description Urachal cysts are uncommon. Rarely, these cysts can become infected. Tuberculosis of the urachal cyst is exceedingly rare, with only one case reported previously in the English language literature. Here we report the case of a 23-year-old male who presented with an infra-umbilical mass that turned out to be tuberculosis of the urachal cyst.
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spelling pubmed-35439482013-01-23 Tuberculosis of the urachal cyst Jindal, Tarun Kamal, Mir Reza Jha, Jayesh Kumar Korean J Intern Med Case Report Urachal cysts are uncommon. Rarely, these cysts can become infected. Tuberculosis of the urachal cyst is exceedingly rare, with only one case reported previously in the English language literature. Here we report the case of a 23-year-old male who presented with an infra-umbilical mass that turned out to be tuberculosis of the urachal cyst. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2013-01 2012-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3543948/ /pubmed/23346004 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2013.28.1.103 Text en Copyright © 2013 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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