Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis in non-immunocompromised patient treated by Whipple's procedure: a case report.
PANCREATIC tuberculosis (TB) is a rare disease and its diagnosis is difficult because of the lack of specific clinical manifestations. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have some diagnostic values in this disease, but it is easy to misdiagnose pancreatic TB as a pancreatic tumor.1 In this article, we present a case of non-immunocompromised patient developing an isolated pancreatic TB, report the CT and MRI findings, and the surgical procedure for it.
Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China.
Shao-long
SL
Sun
Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China.
Feng
F
Gao
Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China.
Dong-xu
DX
Cui
Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, China.
Bao-sheng
BS
Wang
D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016577:Pancreaticoduodenectomy / Q000379:methods*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery