Differential diagnosis of an unusual pelvic mass in a renal transplant recipient: multidrug-resistant abdominopelvic tuberculosis.
Renal transplant patients are more prone to tuberculosis infection due to the underlying intense immunosuppression, with an incidence 20-74 times higher than that in the general population. It is associated with graft dysfunction and increased mortality rates. It can be frequently pulmonary but extra-pulmonary involvement is not rare, and in the latter case, it may be misinterpreted as genital malignancies. In this case report, we discuss a renal transplant patient with pelvic pain and fever, who was later diagnosed as having abdominopelvic tuberculosis.
Division of Nephrology, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. etatar@hotmail.com
Erhan
E
Tatar
Ozkan
O
Gungor
Ozgur
O
Firat
Fatih
F
Kircelli
Bilgin
B
Arda
Mustafa
M
Harman
Huseyin
H
Toz
Cuneyt
C
Hoscoskun
D000005:Abdomen; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D010388:Pelvis; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000175:diagnosis*