Colonic tuberculosis: a case report.

colonic tuberculosis diagnosis endoscopy intestinal tuberculosis

Journal

Future science OA
ISSN: 2056-5623
Titre abrégé: Future Sci OA
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101665030

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Historique:
received: 15 08 2022
accepted: 27 01 2023
entrez: 6 3 2023
pubmed: 7 3 2023
medline: 7 3 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Colonic tuberculosis is rare. It accounts for 2-3% of abdominal tuberculosis. Clinical, radiological and endoscopic features are nonspecific. The diagnosis must be considered in front of chronic abdominal pain, vesperal fever and weight loss with on colonoscopy the presence of nodules or ulcers. The diagnosis is made on pathological findings. We report a case of an 82-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of colonic tuberculosis. The diagnosis were suspected on clinical presentation: chronic abdominal pain, fever and weight loss. The colonoscopy showed a nodular aspect of the left and sigmoid colonic mucosa and the pathology examination of the multiple biopsy specimens showed an epithelioid and gigantocellular granulomas with caseous necrosis. In front of a nonspecific clinical and endoscopic aspects, multiples colonic biopsies are mandatory to rule out differential diagnosis and confirm colonic tuberculosis. Clinical and radiological features of colonic tuberculosis are nonspecific. The diagnosis must be considered in case of abdominal chronic pain and general symptoms. The mainly differential diagnosis are colorectal cancer or Crohn's disease. We report a case of an 82-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of colonic tuberculosis.

Autres résumés

Type: plain-language-summary (eng)
Clinical and radiological features of colonic tuberculosis are nonspecific. The diagnosis must be considered in case of abdominal chronic pain and general symptoms. The mainly differential diagnosis are colorectal cancer or Crohn's disease. We report a case of an 82-year-old female patient with the diagnosis of colonic tuberculosis.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36874372
doi: 10.2144/fsoa-2022-0056
pmc: PMC9979145
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

FSO830

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Authors.

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Auteurs

Ghada Gharbi (G)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Moufida Mahmoudi (M)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Manel Yakoubi (M)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Asma Ben Mohamed (AB)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Amal Khsiba (A)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Mohamed Karim M'Farrej (MK)

Department of Pathology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Mahdi Bouassida (M)

Department of Surgery, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Emna Chelbi (E)

Department of Pathology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

Lamine Hamzaoui (L)

Department of Gastroenterology, Mohamed Taher Maamouri Hospital, Nabeul, Tunisia.

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