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Gastric tuberculosis presenting as non healing ulcer: A case report
Piyush Manoria1, Hanni V Gulwani2
1Department of Gastroenterology, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, India.
Abstract:
Tuberculosis is a major health problem in India. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is the sixth most common causes of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and it mostly involves the ileocaecal region. Primary gastric tuberculosis in immunocompetent person is very rare. Stomach as its site is rare and is the sixth most common site of gastrointestinal tuberculosis. It mostly presents as a cases of non healing ulcer or gastric outlet obstruction. Yield of endoscopic biopsies for granuloma is low due to submucosal location of these lesions and mostly they are diagnosed after surgical intervention. We report a case of isolated gastric tuberculosis in a middle age immunocompetent female who present as a cases of non healing ulcer and responded well to standard antitubercular treatment. A high index of its suspicion should be kept in mind in any chronic infiltrative lesions of stomach like non healing ulcers and gastric outlet obstruction for its early diagnosis and treatment.
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