Abdominal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
CA-125
case report
extrapulmonary tuberculosis
malignancy
ovarian cancer
Journal
International medical case reports journal
ISSN: 1179-142X
Titre abrégé: Int Med Case Rep J
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101566269
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
17
11
2021
accepted:
25
02
2022
entrez:
18
4
2022
pubmed:
19
4
2022
medline:
19
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality resulting from infection by A 30-year-old woman admitted to the emergency department with chief complaint of fatigue and shortness of breath since 3 months ago. She had lost around 20 kg weight in the past 5 months. She was previously suspected with ovarian cancer because of the characteristic features of malignancy, high levels of CA-125, and positive PET scan. She was later diagnosed with abdominal TB. Subsequently, the patient was given anti-TB drugs, and the patient showed clinical improvement. In the case of an elevated CA-125, clinicians should consider extrapulmonary TB as a differential diagnosis of ovarian cancer, especially in countries with high burden of tuberculosis.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35431583
doi: 10.2147/IMCRJ.S348434
pii: 348434
pmc: PMC9012314
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
169-185Informations de copyright
© 2022 Rinaldi et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this work.
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