Granulomatous bowel disease: Crohn’s disease and tuberculosis. Difficulties in differential diagnosis (case report and review)

Diagnosis of extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis is still challenging. Abdominal tuberculosis has no pathogno- monic signs, so most patients had various diagnoses. In this clinical case, the diagnostic difficulties are due to the absence of a history of tuberculosis and the manifestation of the iso...

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Published inKoloproktologia Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 117 - 127
Main Authors Vardanyan, A. V., Merkulova, E. S., Belinskaya, V. A., Frolova, K. S., Mainovskaya, O. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.03.2023
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Summary:Diagnosis of extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis is still challenging. Abdominal tuberculosis has no pathogno- monic signs, so most patients had various diagnoses. In this clinical case, the diagnostic difficulties are due to the absence of a history of tuberculosis and the manifestation of the isolated tuberculosis process in the intestine. This forced us for a wide differential diagnostic search to exclude inflammatory bowel diseases and neoplasms and required the multidisciplinary team. This approach, awareness and alertness of specialists regarding extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis made it possible to achieve success in this patient.
ISSN:2073-7556
2686-7303
DOI:10.33878/2073-7556-2023-22-1-117-127