Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report

This is a case report that includes an analysis about extrapulmonary tuberculosis and his singularities, cause can be confused with cancer. Our patient an 83-year-old woman from Pasto-Colombia presents a mimicking metastasis with melanoma. This guides us to understand that extrapulmonary tuberculosi...

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Published inRadiology case reports Vol. 15; no. 11; pp. 2471 - 2476
Main Authors Salinas-Álvarez, Vanessa, Gómez-Torres, Carolinie, Garzón-Cubides, Julián, Gómez-Mier, Luis Carlos, Soto-Montoya, Camilo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.11.2020
Elsevier
Subjects
Case Report
Extrapulmonary
Metastases
Pseudotumoral
Soft tissue
Tuberculosis
Pseudotumoral
Soft tissue
Tuberculosis
Extrapulmonary
Metastases
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Summary:This is a case report that includes an analysis about extrapulmonary tuberculosis and his singularities, cause can be confused with cancer. Our patient an 83-year-old woman from Pasto-Colombia presents a mimicking metastasis with melanoma. This guides us to understand that extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a rare pathology, but it should be considered as a potential differential diagnosis of any osteolytic lesion. That is the reasons for to be one of the great imitators in medicine, we come up with are totally necessary in a differential diagnosis with malignancies, a high index of suspicion.
Bibliography:ORCID: 0000-0003-2583-0863.
ISSN:1930-0433
1930-0433
DOI:10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.059