Tuberculous peritonitis is a serious condition with rising prevalence in recent years. Peritoneal involvement is rare with high morbidity and mortality, accounting for 0. Intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis is a regional disease, chronic, specific. Intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis is a regional disease, chronic, specific, usually secondary to advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, which mostly takes the form located in lymphoid tissue loyal, frequent location in the terminal ileum, jejunum, ileocecal and or peritoneum, appears to have no predilection based on sex, and usually happens between. This entity can sometimes clinically simulate an ovarian carcinoma, which added to an incresed serum ca 125 can make the. Peritoneal tuberculosis tb is a form of peritoneal and or pelvic tb. Principales diagnosticos diferenciales carcinomatosis peritoneal y linfoma. Its legislation is in western countries and is mainly related to hiv coinfection. Tuberculosis may present as a rare extrapulmonary outbreak called peritoneal tuberculosis. Tuberculous peritonitis is one of the possible forms of abdominal tuberculosis. Peritoneal tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis with. It is an uncommon variant of tuberculosis with an estimated incidence of 0. The aim of this study was to report a case of acute abdomen secondary to inflammatory peritoneal tb in an immunocompetent young patient.
Otras pruebas diagnosticas analiticas deben ser tenidas. Diagnosis requires microbiological or histopathological. Its symptomatology is the shock of the diagnosis with the disastrous abdomen, with the use of gold diagnostic criteria as. We report 2 cases of patients with ascites and nodular peritoneal thickening on diagnostic images, as. Primary peritoneal tumors, radiology, diferencial diagnosis.
Peritoneal tuberculosis is usually secondary to a primary pulmonary infection that disseminates through lymph or blood. The absence of characteristic clinical features of the disease often makes its diagnosis difficult and elusive. Peritoneal tuberculosis tb is an extrapulmonary form of presentation of tuberculosis. The clinical picture can mimic ovarian cancer because of its. It is a type of abdominal tuberculosis that infects the. The peritoneum is one of the most common extrapulmonary sites of tuberculous infection.
Guirat et al, peritoneal tuberculosis, clinics and research in hepathology and gastroenterology 2011 35, 6069 7. Hiv infection is a primary risk factor for this condition. Peritoneal tuberculosis remains a significant problem in parts of the world where tuberculosis is prevalent. Peritoneal tuberculosis is rare with increased incidence rates in recent years. Peritoneal tuberculosis in the differential diagnosis with peritoneal carcinomatosis.
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