Tuberculosis is still one of the most prevalent and fatal infectious diseases in spite of considerable improvements in medical science. Splenic tuberculosis is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. There are limited numbers of cases in which immune thrombocytopenia is associated with splenic tuberculosis. We report a case of immune thrombocytopenic purpura due to splenic tuberculosis. Our...

OBJECTIVES Tuberculosis remains a common infection and is often associated with non-specific constitutional symptoms or laboratory investigations regardless of site of manifestations. This study compares the profiles of abdominal tuberculosis (ATB) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). METHODS Patients with ATB (n=34, male-21, mean age 43.3 +/- 16.0 years) diagnosed over a nine year period were i...

58-year-old woman with no significant medical history developed unexplained weight loss, anorexia, abdominal pain and distension. Physical examination revealed multiple masses in the abdomen, and radiographic studies showed multiple lymphadenopathies in all abdominal quadrants. A chest Xray was normal and she had no family or personal history of tuberculosis. Antibodies against the human immuno...

More than 230 years after the characteristic clinical features of tuberculosis spondylitis were first described, this serious infection can still present diagnostic dilemmas in clinical practice. Atypical presentations of spinal tuberculosis mimicking malignancy have been described. We report a 50-year-old woman with abdominal pain as a presenting symptom of lumbar spinal tuberculosis. She pres...

Although infrequent, digestive fistulae in HIV/AIDS patients have been reported throughout the digestive tract from the esophagus to the anus, with predominance of esophageal fistulae. AIDS/HIV-associated opportunistic infections may invade the digestive system and lead to fistula formation. Tuberculosis is the most common infection associated with these esophageal fistulae. We report here one ...

PURPOSE To describe a case of unilateral frosted branch angiitis in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis. METHODS Observational case report. RESULTS A 17-year-old girl with chronic abdominal pain, cough, and amenorrhea for 5 months presented with complaints of sudden diminution of vision in both eyes for 1 day. Fundus examination of the right eye showed disk edema, dilated tortuous vessels...

This case report describes a young man in his early 20s who was found to have synchronous adenocarcinoma of the colon and abdominal tuberculosis. This is a rare finding and it is discussed whether a dampened immune response by the cancer allowed a latent tuberculosis infection to become active or vice versa.

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is defined as tuberculosis (TB) affecting organs other than lung. The most common site of EPTB is the lymph node. In adults, lymphadenopathy without a lung parenchymal infiltrate is rare and is usually observed in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a 53 years old nonimmunocompromised women from Haiti affected by intrathoracic and intraabdominal tu...