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A Diagnostic Challenge: Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer Cover

A Diagnostic Challenge: Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer

Open Access
|Aug 2017

Abstract

A 26 years old patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of abdominal pain and febrile temperature. Initially, elevated serum antigen CA-125, ascites and multiple suspicious nodules in the lungs and abdominal cavity on CT were found, thus, diagnosing ovarian cancer. However, after further preoperative examination, the diagnosis of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis with extrapulmonary involvement was set, thereby cancelling the surgery. The patient was treated with first-line antituberculosis agents and discharged home. Almost in all other cases, peritoneal tuberculosis is diagnosed only after surgical intervention.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/chilat-2017-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2199-5737 | Journal ISSN: 1407-981X
Language: English
Page range: 31 - 32
Published on: Aug 22, 2017
Published by: Riga Stradins University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2017 Eva Rulova, Elizabete Pumpure, Zenons Romanovskis, Liga Puksta-Gulbe, published by Riga Stradins University
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