A Case Report of Primary Duodenal Tuberculosis Mimicking a Malignant Tumor

Tuberculosis remains a serious infectious disease with primary features of pulmonary manifestation in Korea. However, duodenal tuberculosis is rare in gastrointestinal cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of primary duodenal tuberculosis mistaken as a malignant tumor and diag...

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Autores principales: Jung, Ji Hye, Kim, Seong Hwan, Kim, Min Jeong, Cho, Young Kwan, Ahn, Sang Bong, Son, Byoung Kwan, Jo, Yun Ju, Park, Young Sook
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25133123
http://dx.doi.org/10.5946/ce.2014.47.4.346
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author Jung, Ji Hye
Kim, Seong Hwan
Kim, Min Jeong
Cho, Young Kwan
Ahn, Sang Bong
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Jo, Yun Ju
Park, Young Sook
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description Tuberculosis remains a serious infectious disease with primary features of pulmonary manifestation in Korea. However, duodenal tuberculosis is rare in gastrointestinal cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of primary duodenal tuberculosis mistaken as a malignant tumor and diagnosed with QuantiFERON-TB GOLD (Cellestis Ltd.) in an immunocompetent male patient.
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spelling pubmed-41308912014-08-17 A Case Report of Primary Duodenal Tuberculosis Mimicking a Malignant Tumor Jung, Ji Hye Kim, Seong Hwan Kim, Min Jeong Cho, Young Kwan Ahn, Sang Bong Son, Byoung Kwan Jo, Yun Ju Park, Young Sook Clin Endosc Case Report Tuberculosis remains a serious infectious disease with primary features of pulmonary manifestation in Korea. However, duodenal tuberculosis is rare in gastrointestinal cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of primary duodenal tuberculosis mistaken as a malignant tumor and diagnosed with QuantiFERON-TB GOLD (Cellestis Ltd.) in an immunocompetent male patient. The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2014-07 2014-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4130891/ /pubmed/25133123 http://dx.doi.org/10.5946/ce.2014.47.4.346 Text en Copyright © 2014 Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 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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