Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Despite early diagnosis and improvements in medical science, the incidence of the disease is still a major public health problem in developing countries. Splenic tuberculos...

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Autores principales: Chablou, Mohamed, Jabi, Rachid, Id M'barek, Ahmed, Seghrouchni, Noura, Bouziane, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777552
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13463
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author Chablou, Mohamed
Jabi, Rachid
Id M'barek, Ahmed
Seghrouchni, Noura
Bouziane, Mohammed
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Jabi, Rachid
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Despite early diagnosis and improvements in medical science, the incidence of the disease is still a major public health problem in developing countries. Splenic tuberculosis is quite rare and occurs mostly as a part of miliary tuberculosis in individuals with immunosuppression. Isolated splenic tuberculosis is extremely rare in immunocompetent patients. We report a case of an immunocompetent man with isolated splenic tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-79858372021-03-25 Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case Chablou, Mohamed Jabi, Rachid Id M'barek, Ahmed Seghrouchni, Noura Bouziane, Mohammed Cureus General Surgery Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Despite early diagnosis and improvements in medical science, the incidence of the disease is still a major public health problem in developing countries. Splenic tuberculosis is quite rare and occurs mostly as a part of miliary tuberculosis in individuals with immunosuppression. Isolated splenic tuberculosis is extremely rare in immunocompetent patients. We report a case of an immunocompetent man with isolated splenic tuberculosis. Cureus 2021-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7985837/ /pubmed/33777552 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13463 Text en Copyright © 2021, Chablou 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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Chablou, Mohamed
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Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case
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title_full Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case
title_fullStr Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case
title_short Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case
title_sort isolated splenic tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient: a rare case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985837/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13463
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