Disseminated abdominal tuberculosis, an unusual presentation in a healthy adolescent: a case report
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20221494Keywords:
Tuberculosis, Abdominal tuberculosis, Spleen, Abscess, Mycobacterium tuberculosisAbstract
Disseminated abdominal tuberculosis is a rare and highly complex disease. With a very low incidence of 2.5% of patient with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and no detected in a timely manner reaches up to a mortality of 8%. We present a rare case of disseminated abdominal tuberculosis in an adolescent that began as a splenic abscess managed with open surgery and clinical-surgical finding of disseminated tuberculosis in the abdominal cavity.
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