[Tuberculosis of the spleen--very rare site of extrapulmonary TB]

Pneumologia. 2009 Apr-Jun;58(2):114-7.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

The extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) includes all the sites excepting lung, its origin being in the hematogenous disseminating foci within the main infection. The case of a woman, aged 36, is presented suffering of second degree obesity and type II diabetes mellitus under diet. She was admitted in the Surgery Clinics I of Emergency "Floreasca" Hospital (October 21, 2008) for discontinuous pains, relatively strong in the left hypocondrium, vesperal fever, perspirations, symptoms being present for 5 months. The investigations carried out before and after the admission show the presence of a splenomegaly (stage I-WHO), the absence of hypersplenism, portal hypertension, or other objective elements--excepting those mentioned at admittance--as well as the imaging changes (thoracic abdominal CT: spleen with an axis of 17 cm length, multiple solid hypodense lesions with a diameter of 5 cm). The surgical intervention is undergone (laparoscopic splenectomy). The morphological-pathological diagnosis was tuberculosis of the spleen. Considerations are made on this TB rare site.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / complications
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopy*
  • Obesity / complications
  • Splenectomy*
  • Splenomegaly / microbiology
  • Splenomegaly / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Tuberculosis, Splenic / complications
  • Tuberculosis, Splenic / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Splenic / surgery*