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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Digestive Endoscopy 2016; 07(01): 030-032
DOI: 10.4103/0976-5042.180098
Case Report
Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India

Pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking cystic tumor of pancreas

Surinder Singh Rana
Departments of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
,
Rajesh Gupta
1   Department of Gastroenterology, Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
,
Rajeev Ranjan
2   Department of Gastroenterology, Cytology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
,
Radhika Srinivasan
2   Department of Gastroenterology, Cytology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
,
Deepak Kumar Bhasin
Departments of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Publication Date:
26 September 2019 (online)

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Abstract

Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis is very rare, and it presents as a mass lesion and closely mimics pancreatic adenocarcinoma both clinically as well as on imaging. Further, pancreatic tuberculosis can also rarely mimic cystic tumor of the pancreas. We present an unusual case of pancreatic tuberculosis in a 42-year-old lady who presented with pain abdomen and had a cystic lesion with an enhancing mural nodule on computed tomography resembling a cystic tumor of the pancreas.

Key words

Endoscopic ultrasound - necrosis - pancreas - tuberculosis
 

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