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A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis

Peritoneal tuberculosis is a disease which can mimick malignancy especially in women who present with ascites and elevated CA125 levels. It should always be considered in differential diagnosis, but the diagnosis is rarely easy for clinicians. A young female patient who presented with abdomen tender...

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Autores principales: Bulut Gökten, Dilara, Katipoglu, Bilal, Basara, Ekrem, Ates, Ihsan, Yılmaz, Nisbet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5821965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4970836
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Sumario:Peritoneal tuberculosis is a disease which can mimick malignancy especially in women who present with ascites and elevated CA125 levels. It should always be considered in differential diagnosis, but the diagnosis is rarely easy for clinicians. A young female patient who presented with abdomen tenderness and diagnosed with peritoneal tuberculosis as a result of performed tests is discussed hereby in the case report. We expect that this case report adds to the existing literature on this subject.