Dilemma Continues – Abdominal Tuberculosis or Abdomininal Lymphoma

Year 2017, , 156 - 159, 15.09.2017

Ajaz Nabi Koul Aadil Rafeeq Rather Basharat Ah. Kasana

https://doi.org/10.5799/jmid.367615

Abstract

Tuberculosis
is a disease that has long been there since ages and is a threat as it was.
Abdominal tuberculosis is espacially common in endemic regions and with its
varying and non-specific presentation may mimic a variety of disorders ranging
from benign to malignant. It has a concealing effect as well and tends to mask
diseases that are of entirely different character. All of this creates a
diagnostic dilemma for the clinician. we present a similar case which was as
non-specific as it could be. We presented here a patient who after undergoing
more than 3 colonoscopies, being labelled lymphoma twice, registered for
chemotherapy and most of the conventional tubercular markers being negative,
still turned out to be a case of abdominal tuberculosis. 

Keywords

Tuberculosis, Lymphoma, Colonoscopy, Histopathology

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