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Isolated tuberculosis of the pancreas after orthotopic liver transplantation
J C Coelho1, J C Wiederkehr, M B Parolin
1Division of Liver Transplantation, Clinical Hospital of the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.
Liver Transplantation and Surgery : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
|March 10, 1999
Abstract:
A patient presented with intermittent high fever, upper abdominal pain, and loss of appetite 9 months after an orthotopic liver transplantation. Computed tomography showed a large mass in the pancreas that was confirmed at laparotomy. Pathological examination of the pancreatic biopsy specimen showed several chronic granulomatous lesions with caseating necrosis. Two and one half months after beginning antituberculous treatment, there was an important reduction of the pancreatic mass.