Abstract
Rationale:Tuberculosis remains a serious menace to the health of people. Isolated hepatic tuberculosis is rare and pancreatic tuberculosis is extremely rare. The preoperative diagnosis of pancreatic tuberculosis remains a great challenge.Patient concerns:A 58-year-old Asian woman was referred to our hospital for evaluation of low back pain for 4 years and abdominal pain for 1 month.Diagnoses:Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed a hypodense mass in the pancreatic head and neck with abundant calcifications, a hypodense lesion in the liver without calcification, peripancreatic lymphadenopathy, calcifications in some lymph nodes. CT-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of the hepatic lesion was carried out and the cytological examination revealed hepatic tuberculosis.Interventions:The patient was treated with antituberculous therapy for 1 year.Outcomes:Low back pain and abdominal pain disappeared 3 months after initial treatment and after 2 year of follow-up, the patient was asymptomatic.Lessons:Our data hint that calcifications in both pancreatic lesions and peripancreatic lymph nodes may suggest pancreatic tuberculosis rather than pancreatic malignancy.
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