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Isolated splenic tuberculosis presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin
1Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
We report a case of a 62-y-old man who presented with fever, malaise and weight loss. He was diagnosed with pyrexia of unknown origin due to tuberculosis of the spleen. Combination anti-tuberculous therapy was administered and fever gradually subsided after 6 weeks. A 12-month course of anti-tuberculous treatment would appear to be appropriate for the treatment of most patients with splenic tuberculosis.