Isolated caecal tuberculosis mimicking a neoplastic tumour in an immunocompetent woman.
Although tuberculosis is endemic in Tunisia, only a few cases of intestinal disease have been reported. This entity is usually associated with pulmonary tuberculosis. Any part of the gastrointestinal tract may be affected but usually with ileocaecal involvement. Diagnosis is extremely difficult because the clinical presentation is so variable. The disease frequently mimics other chronic inflammatory intra-abdominal diseases or even malignancy. We report a case of isolated colonic tuberculosis presenting as circumferential ulcerovegetative lesions in the caecal region.
Department of Internal Medicine, Charles Nicolle Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.
Eya
E
Cherif
Lamia
L
Ben Hassine
Samira
S
Azzabi
Narjess
N
Khalfallah
D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology; D003113:Colonoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging