Tuberculous peritonitis masquerading as carcinomatosis

Tuberculous peritonitis may debut with unspecific symptoms that can pose a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. We present a patient with tuberculous peritonitis masquerading as carcinomatosis. High clinical suspicion, appropriate identification of bacterial isolates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

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Autores principales: Motoa, Gabriel, Alvarez, Salvador
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3040
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description Tuberculous peritonitis may debut with unspecific symptoms that can pose a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. We present a patient with tuberculous peritonitis masquerading as carcinomatosis. High clinical suspicion, appropriate identification of bacterial isolates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, and susceptibility testing are crucial to select target therapy.
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spelling pubmed-75628902020-10-20 Tuberculous peritonitis masquerading as carcinomatosis Motoa, Gabriel Alvarez, Salvador Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Tuberculous peritonitis may debut with unspecific symptoms that can pose a diagnostic challenge for clinicians. We present a patient with tuberculous peritonitis masquerading as carcinomatosis. High clinical suspicion, appropriate identification of bacterial isolates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, and susceptibility testing are crucial to select target therapy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7562890/ /pubmed/33088559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3040 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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