<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A 26 years old patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of abdominal pain and febrile temperature. Initially, elevated serum antigen CA-125, ascites and multiple suspicious nodules in the lungs and abdominal cavity on CT were found, thus, diagnosing ovarian cancer. However, after further preoperative examination, the diagnosis of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis with extrapulmonary involvement was set, thereby cancelling the surgery. The patient was treated with first-line antituberculosis agents and discharged home. Almost in all other cases, peritoneal tuberculosis is diagnosed only after surgical intervention.</p></abstract>

A 26 years old patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of abdominal pain and febrile temperature. Initially, elevated serum antigen CA-125, ascites and multiple suspicious nodules in the lungs and abdominal cavity on CT were found, thus, diagnosing ovarian cancer. However, after further preoperative examination, the diagnosis of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis with extrapulmonary involvement was set, thereby cancelling the surgery. The patient was treated with first-line antituberculosis agents and discharged home. Almost in all other cases, peritoneal tuberculosis is diagnosed only after surgical intervention.

A Diagnostic Challenge: Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer

Riga East Clinical University Hospital Gailezers

Acta Chirurgica Latviensis

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A 26 years old patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of abdominal pain and febrile temperature. Initially, elevated serum antigen CA-125, ascites...

A Diagnostic Challenge: Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer

Published Online: Aug 22, 2017

Page range: 31 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/chilat-2017-0008

Keywords
ascites, ovarian cancer, peritoneal tuberculosis, CA125

© 2016 Latvian Surgeons’ Association, Latvian Paediatric Surgeon Association, Rīga Stradiņš University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Diagnostic Challenge: Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer

Published Online: Aug 22, 2017

Page range: 31 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/chilat-2017-0008

Keywordsascites, ovarian cancer, peritoneal tuberculosis, CA125

© 2016 Latvian Surgeons’ Association, Latvian Paediatric Surgeon Association, Rīga Stradiņš University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
ascites, ovarian cancer, peritoneal tuberculosis, CA125