Abdominal Tuberculosis Mimicking Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

Doğan Albayrak; Ahmet Rahmi Hatipoğlu; Abdil Cem  İbiş; Zeki Hoşcoşkun; Hüseyin  Pülat; Ahmet Tezel

doi:10.5174/tutfd.2008.00623.1

Doğan Albayrak ¹, Ahmet Rahmi Hatipoğlu ¹, Abdil Cem İbiş ², Zeki Hoşcoşkun ², Hüseyin Pülat ³, Ahmet Tezel ⁴

¹Department of General Surgery, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey
²Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı, Edirne
³Department of General Surgery, Medical Faculty of Trakya University, Edirne
⁴Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Gastroenteroloji Bilim Dalı, Edirne

DOI : 10.5174/tutfd.2008.00623.1

Pages : 300-301

Abstract

Abdominal tuberculosis is a rare disease, with non-specific findings. Abdominal tuberculosis can mimic different pathologies. Abdominal tuberculosis could affect the entire gastrointestinal tract, peritoneum, mesentery as well as the solid organs like liver, spleen and pancreas. We present a 42-year-old woman with intra-abdominal mass of unknown origin which was interpreted as peritoneal carcinomatosis intraoperatively.

Keywords : Tuberculosis; peritoneal carcinomatosis

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