Isolated pancreatic and peripancreatic nodal tuberculosis: A single-centre experience.

We report our experience with pancreatic tuberculosis. Over a period of 12 years, we have managed 16 such patients, of whom 10 were diagnosed preoperatively. In six, the diagnosis was only made after extensive surgery. All 16 patients received antitubercular drugs and were well at a median follow-up of 52 months. Although pancreatic tuberculosis can be diagnosed by modern image-guided biopsy in a fair number of patients, if a high index of suspicion is maintained, a laparotomy may still be unavoidable in a subset of patients. PMID: 33104450 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Tropical Doctor - October 26, 2020 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Ray S, Das K, Ghosh R Tags: Trop Doct Source Type: research