Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses

Tuberculosis is a common infectious cause of splenic enlargement in developing countries, but tubercular splenic abscesses are a rare presentation, found predominantly in immunocompromised populations. We report a case of tubercular splenic abscesses with isolated splenic vein thrombosis in an immun...

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Autores principales: Jain, Deepak, Verma, Kamal, Jain, Promil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu042
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description Tuberculosis is a common infectious cause of splenic enlargement in developing countries, but tubercular splenic abscesses are a rare presentation, found predominantly in immunocompromised populations. We report a case of tubercular splenic abscesses with isolated splenic vein thrombosis in an immunocompetent person.
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spelling pubmed-43699882015-05-18 Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses Jain, Deepak Verma, Kamal Jain, Promil Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Tuberculosis is a common infectious cause of splenic enlargement in developing countries, but tubercular splenic abscesses are a rare presentation, found predominantly in immunocompromised populations. We report a case of tubercular splenic abscesses with isolated splenic vein thrombosis in an immunocompetent person. Oxford University Press 2014-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4369988/ /pubmed/25988047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu042 Text en © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title_full Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title_fullStr Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title_short Disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
title_sort disseminated tuberculosis causing isolated splenic vein thrombosis and multiple splenic abscesses
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu042
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