Ahallat A, El Mouden MAA, Aggouri Y, Laalim SA. Peritoneal tuberculosis: a benign differential diagnosis of ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis (a case report).
Pan Afr Med J 2023;
45:151. [PMID:
37869225 PMCID:
PMC10589411 DOI:
10.11604/pamj.2023.45.151.40327]
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Abstract
Peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare form of tuberculosis which gives a non-specific clinical picture which can be confused with several digestive pathologies. It can also mimic ovarian cancer at the stage of peritoneal carcinomatosis, hence the interest sometimes of a diagnostic laparoscopy which makes it possible to make the diagnosis which is confirmed by an anatomo-pathological study. This is the case of our patient who was initially diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the diagnosis was corrected in peritoneal tuberculosis after a laparoscopy.
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