A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis
Peritoneal tuberculosis is a disease which can mimick malignancy especially in women who present with ascites and elevated CA125 levels. It should always be considered in differential diagnosis, but the diagnosis is rarely easy for clinicians. A young female patient who presented with abdomen tender...
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| author | Dilara Bulut Gökten Bilal Katipoglu Ekrem Basara Ihsan Ates Nisbet Yılmaz |
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| description | Peritoneal tuberculosis is a disease which can mimick malignancy especially in women who present with ascites and elevated CA125 levels. It should always be considered in differential diagnosis, but the diagnosis is rarely easy for clinicians. A young female patient who presented with abdomen tenderness and diagnosed with peritoneal tuberculosis as a result of performed tests is discussed hereby in the case report. We expect that this case report adds to the existing literature on this subject. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6746b74379ca4a91a429065e3d45e9f22025-02-03T05:55:18ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332018-01-01201810.1155/2018/49708364970836A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging DiagnosisDilara Bulut Gökten0Bilal Katipoglu1Ekrem Basara2Ihsan Ates3Nisbet Yılmaz4Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkeyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, TurkeyPeritoneal tuberculosis is a disease which can mimick malignancy especially in women who present with ascites and elevated CA125 levels. It should always be considered in differential diagnosis, but the diagnosis is rarely easy for clinicians. A young female patient who presented with abdomen tenderness and diagnosed with peritoneal tuberculosis as a result of performed tests is discussed hereby in the case report. We expect that this case report adds to the existing literature on this subject.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4970836 |
| spellingShingle | Dilara Bulut Gökten Bilal Katipoglu Ekrem Basara Ihsan Ates Nisbet Yılmaz A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis |
| title_full | A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis |
| title_fullStr | A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis |
| title_short | A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis: A Challenging Diagnosis |
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