Tuberculosis peritoneal mimicking colonic carcinomatosis.
Cristina María Gras GómezJuan Torres MeleroMartín de Jesús Rodríguez-PerdomoJosé Ruiz PardoBeatriz Estébanez FerreroMaría Del Mar Rico-MoralesAntonio Álvarez GarcíaÁngel Reina DuartePublished in: Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas : organo oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Patologia Digestiva (2022)
Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) has increased in Spain in recent years due to multiple factors. Peritoneal tuberculosis represents the sixth cause of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, accounting for 11% of tuberculosis cases. We report a 28-year-old male from Mali, who arrived at our hospital with an acute abdomen due to intestinal perforation with a computed tomography scan (CT) performed peritoneal tuberculosis mimicking primary carcinomatosis. This presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, since the surgical approach differs in both cases, and the prognosis is very different between them.
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