Abstract
Pancreatic tuberculosis: a rare condition mimicking pancreatic cystadenoma.
Machado, M.A.C. ; Herman, P.; Montagnini, A.L.; Jukemura, J.; Leite, K.R.M.; Furlan, J.; Machado, M.C.C.
Pancreas 17(3):315-22, 1998.
Tuberculosis of the pancreas is extremely rare.
Even in autopsies of patients who have died of
disseminated tuberculosis the reported incidence
of pancreatic involvement is between 2 and 4.7%,
and therefore clinical diagnosis is exceptional.
We describe an unusual case of primary pancreatic
tuberculosis mimicking a cystic tumor of
the pancreas in a patient who had no known exposure
history, was immunocompetent and had no
demonstrable extrapancreatic involvement. No
other case mimicking pancreatic cystadenoma has
been found reported in English literature.