More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy

The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging to make due to the non-specific signs and symptoms that patients usually present with. Furthermore, the endoscopic appearance of colonic TB is not specific and can mimic other more common pathologies such as Crohn’s disease and colonic malignancy. We...

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Autores principales: Obeidat, Adham E, Namiki, Thomas, Murakami, Traci T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728169
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13216
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author Obeidat, Adham E
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description The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging to make due to the non-specific signs and symptoms that patients usually present with. Furthermore, the endoscopic appearance of colonic TB is not specific and can mimic other more common pathologies such as Crohn’s disease and colonic malignancy. We report the case of a 66-year-old female who presented for a routine screening colonoscopy and was diagnosed with disseminated TB after histopathological examination of the discovered polyps.
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spelling pubmed-79466092021-03-15 More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy Obeidat, Adham E Namiki, Thomas Murakami, Traci T Cureus Internal Medicine The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging to make due to the non-specific signs and symptoms that patients usually present with. Furthermore, the endoscopic appearance of colonic TB is not specific and can mimic other more common pathologies such as Crohn’s disease and colonic malignancy. We report the case of a 66-year-old female who presented for a routine screening colonoscopy and was diagnosed with disseminated TB after histopathological examination of the discovered polyps. Cureus 2021-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7946609/ /pubmed/33728169 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13216 Text en Copyright © 2021, Obeidat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Obeidat, Adham E
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More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy
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title_fullStr More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy
title_full_unstemmed More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy
title_short More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy
title_sort more than just a polyp: diagnosis of tuberculosis from a screening colonoscopy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33728169
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13216
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