[A case of appendicular tuberculosis presenting as acute appendicitis].
Tuberculosis may affect primarily all organs and tissues of the body, although some of these show high immunity against the infection. The most common forms of non-pulmonary tuberculosis are tuberculosis of bones and joints (30%), urinary system (24%), lymph nodes (13%), sexual organs (8%), cerebrospinal meninges (4%), and alimentary system (3%). Especially, the commonest presentation of abdominal tuberculosis is ileocecal disease, but isolated appendicular involvement is also rarely seen, occurring in only 1.5% to 3% of cases in the absence of pulmonary or other abdominal involvement. The appendix may either be involved secondary to ileocecal tuberculosis, or to tuberculosis at another site within the abdomen, or may occur in the even, rarer "isolated" form, without the evidence of disease elsewhere. We report a case of acute appendicitis underwent appendectomy and histopathologic examination of appendix revealed appendicular tuberculosis.
Park
Se Woo
SW
Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seongdong-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
Lee
Hang Lak
HL
Lee
Oh Young
OY
Jeon
Yong Chul
YC
Han
Dong Soo
DS
Youn
Byung Chul
BC
Choi
Ho Soon
HS
Hahm
Joon Soo
JS
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001062:Appendectomy; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery