Case Reports
Primary splenic tuberculosis
Authors:
- U. Sharma
- S.K. SahuEmail S.K. Sahu
- S. Agrawal
- R. Khanduri
- N. Shirazi
- H. Kapruwan
- K. Nandra
- G. Sachdev
- A. Bisht
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major health problem worldwide, despite considerable advances in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease [1]. This disease presents with diverse clinical symptoms in the form of pulmonary TB and extra-pulmonary TB. Extra-pulmonary TB accounts for almost 15% of all cases. Among the extra-pulmonary forms, splenic TB is an unusual entity. This form of TB is normally
seen as a part of miliary TB. In our case study, a patient presented with a rare form of splenic TB and managed successfully. Splenic TB is undetectable as a primary site in the body and is a rare variant of extra-pulmonary TB.
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- Year: 2016
- Volume: 34 Issue: 1
- Page/Article: 15-16
- DOI: 10.4038/sljs.v34i1.8228
- Published on 20 Apr 2016
- Peer Reviewed