Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Urogenital tuberculosis is still a frequent presentation, and it constitutes a current public health problem in endemic areas. The clinical presentation of this form of the disease may be misleading. The pseudotumoral type of renal tuberculosis is extremely uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: W...

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Autores principales: Chaker, Kays, Chakroun, Marouene, Gharbi, Maroua, Chebil, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2073-0
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author Chaker, Kays
Chakroun, Marouene
Gharbi, Maroua
Chebil, Mohamed
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description BACKGROUND: Urogenital tuberculosis is still a frequent presentation, and it constitutes a current public health problem in endemic areas. The clinical presentation of this form of the disease may be misleading. The pseudotumoral type of renal tuberculosis is extremely uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 52-year-old African woman who presented with urogenital tuberculosis in its pseudotumoral form. This case was initially diagnosed and managed as renal cancer. Histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of pseudotumoral renal tuberculosis. CONCLUSIONS: The pseudotumoral form of urinary tuberculosis can be difficult to diagnose. Only bacteriological or histological confirmation allows diagnosis for adequate treatment.
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spelling pubmed-65111952019-05-20 Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report Chaker, Kays Chakroun, Marouene Gharbi, Maroua Chebil, Mohamed J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Urogenital tuberculosis is still a frequent presentation, and it constitutes a current public health problem in endemic areas. The clinical presentation of this form of the disease may be misleading. The pseudotumoral type of renal tuberculosis is extremely uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 52-year-old African woman who presented with urogenital tuberculosis in its pseudotumoral form. This case was initially diagnosed and managed as renal cancer. Histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of pseudotumoral renal tuberculosis. CONCLUSIONS: The pseudotumoral form of urinary tuberculosis can be difficult to diagnose. Only bacteriological or histological confirmation allows diagnosis for adequate treatment. BioMed Central 2019-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6511195/ /pubmed/31077255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2073-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chaker, Kays
Chakroun, Marouene
Gharbi, Maroua
Chebil, Mohamed
Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_full Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_fullStr Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_short Renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
title_sort renal tuberculosis mimicking renal cell carcinoma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511195/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31077255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2073-0
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