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A case of cryptic miliary tuberculosis mimicking cholecystitis with sepsis
M Siemann1, G Rabenhorst, A Bramann
1Pathologisch-Bakteriologisches Institut, Städtisches Krankenhaus Kiel, Germany.
Infection
|February 23, 1999
Abstract:
Miliary tuberculosis is a rare form of tuberculosis in industrialized countries. We report on a 69-year-old woman presenting a sepsis syndrome caused by cryptic miliary tuberculosis clinically mimicking a case of cholecystitis with sepsis. The patient died of a multi-organ failure on day 6 of her hospital stay.