BACKGROUND Tuberculosis can involve gastrointestinal tract anywhere from mouth to anus, the peritoneum and pancreatobiliary system. It has varied clinical presentations sometimes mimicking other common abdominal diseases. Tuberculosis continues to be a major problem especially in developing countries, being responsible for 7-10 million new cases and 6 per cent of deaths worldwide annually. Obje...

Our search of literature revealed combined elevations of serum cancer antigen 125 levels and rheumatoid factor levels in a patient with peritoneal tuberculosis has rarely been reported. Thus, we describe the case of a 63-year-old female with large abdominal ascites and malignancy was ruled out with biopsy. High levels of serum cancer antigen and rheumatoid factor were noted. Physicians should b...

Abdominal tuberculosis is a specific tuberculous lesion of the abdominal organs. In children, mostly secondary, occurring mainly in form mesadenitis and intestinal tuberculosis. most cases (63–96%), process localized ileocecal valve. The article presents case untimely diagnosed with lymph node lesions peritoneum intestines child intrathoracic all groups during densification calcification onset....

A 39-year-old woman presented to our hospital with upper abdominal pain. She had been taking anti-tuberculosis medications for 3 months because of pulmonary tuberculosis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed a creamy discharge from an opening in the duodenal bulb (Fig. 1), and abdominal computed tomography with coronal reformatting showed that the lymph nodes had eroded the adjacent duodenum, resu...

Pancreatic tuberculosis is extremely rare and its clinical and radiological findings are similar to those of pancreatic malignancy. The diagnosis of pancreatic tuberculosis is not usually made prior to surgery. Here, we report a case of pancreatic tuberculosis, presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed a 62 mm × 32 mm septate solid-cystic mass in t...

Ascites is one of the frequently encountered problems in internal medicine. Common causes of ascites are portal hypertension including cirrhosis of liver and congestive heart failure, hypoalbuminemia associated with nephrotic syndrome, intra-abdominal malignancy and abdominal tuberculosis. We evaluated 43 patients presented with ascites in Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH). After ...

Sunmmary Eighty-eight patients with abdominal tuberculosis were studied for the diagnostic value of peritoneal biopsy. Peritoneum for biopsy was obtained during laparotomy in 41 cases and by making a small incision in the right iliac fossa, under local anaesthesia, in 47 cases. In 80% histopathological examination revealed caseation or giant cells and epithelioid cell infiltration. In 20% non-s...

Abdominal tuberculosis is the sixth most common site of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. 1 TB may affect any portion of the GI tract however, in 85% of cases ileocecal region is affected whereas gastroduodenal region is involve only 0.3-2.3% of TB cases of abdominal TB. 2 When gastroduodenal TB is seen without any other lesion of TB in body it is known as primary gastroduodenal TB, which is very r...