A case report of primary duodenal tuberculosis mimicking a malignant tumor

Ji Hye Jung; Seong Hwan Kim; Min Jeong Kim; Young Kwan Cho; Sang Bong Ahn; Byoung Kwan Son; Yun Ju Jo; Young Sook Park

doi:10.5946/ce.2014.47.4.346

A case report of primary duodenal tuberculosis mimicking a malignant tumor

Clin Endosc. 2014 Jul;47(4):346-9. doi: 10.5946/ce.2014.47.4.346. Epub 2014 Jul 28.

Authors

Ji Hye Jung¹, Seong Hwan Kim¹, Min Jeong Kim¹, Young Kwan Cho¹, Sang Bong Ahn¹, Byoung Kwan Son¹, Yun Ju Jo¹, Young Sook Park¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Eulji General Hospital, Eulji University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Tuberculosis remains a serious infectious disease with primary features of pulmonary manifestation in Korea. However, duodenal tuberculosis is rare in gastrointestinal cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of primary duodenal tuberculosis mistaken as a malignant tumor and diagnosed with QuantiFERON-TB GOLD (Cellestis Ltd.) in an immunocompetent male patient.

Keywords: 18F-FDG PET/CT; Primary duodenal tuberculosis; QuantiFERON-TB GOLD.