Progress in diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic tuberculosis

Abstract

Pancreatic tuberculosis is a chronic and specific disease of the pancreas, which is rare in clinic.Pancreatic tuberculosis accounts for less than 5% of general miliary tuberculosis.This disease is often secondary to tuberculosis in other parts of the body.Because of the lack of awareness of pancreatic tuberculosis, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as pancreatic cancer.In the past, there were reports of pancreatic tuberculosis misdiagnosed as pancreatic cancer and then underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy treatment.In clinical practice, most of the cases of pancreatic tuberculosis were confirmed by during operation or postoperative pathology.In recent years, with the increase of the incidence of tuberculosis, the reports of pancreatic tuberculosis have also increased.Therefore, the study reviewed the literature of pancreatic tuberculosis in recent years in order to improve the understanding of pancreatic tuberculosis by the medical workers. Key words: Tuberculosis; Pancreas; Pancreatic neoplasms; Review; Therapeutics; Diagnosis; Pathology; Databases, bibliographic