… instead showed the presence of chronic granulomatous inflammation suggestive of TB.
Intraoperative ultrasound of the pancreatic head was also performed and it revealed no obvious …

… However, in immunocompromised patients with hepatic tuberculosis, the serum alkaline …
immunocompetent patients (56). Abnormal serum protein levels are characteristic of tuberculosis…

… However, tuberculosis can manifest in immunocompetent individuals although the incidence
is significantly less. Pancreatic tuberculosis is … Pancreatic tuberculosis is known to mimic the …

… in immunocompetent hosts extrapulmonary TB accounts for one-fifth of cases [2]. Pancreatic
… it often occurs in the setting of disseminated TB and immunodeficiency states [2, 3]. Isolated …

… Pancreatic TB can affect both immunocompromised and immunocompetent populations.
While it … the immunocompetent population in the Western world. It has been hypothesized that …

… a patient who had solitary pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking advanced pancreatic carcinoma;
… abscess has also been reported in immunocompetent individuals, but the more common …

… tuberculosis. We then present a review of the current literature on peripancreatic and pancreatic
tuberculosis, with a … Since their report, our review in nonimmunosuppressed individuals …

… Tuberculosis (TB) of the pancreas is a remarkably unusual clinical entity; all the more so
in immunocompetent individuals. Its clinical features are usually vague and non-specific. The …

… via retroperitoneal lymph nodes, or isolated pancreatic tuberculosis [3]. Our reported patient
likely obtained it via military tuberculosis. The majority of pancreatic tuberculosis involved …

… 20% of all cases of TB in immunocompetent hosts and nearly 50% in patient with human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV).Extra pulmonary TB means the occurrence of TB at sites other …