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Incidental detection of disseminated peritoneal tuberculosis-varied presentation
Anupama Bahadur1, Rajlaxmi Mundhra1, Latika Chawla1
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AIIMS Rishikesh, India.
Background:
Incidental peritoneal tuberculosis represents an uncommon variety of peritoneal tuberculosis and surgeons must be aware of this entity particularly in tuberculosis endemic zones.
Methods:
We prospectively analysed cases of incidental peritoneal tuberculosis detected during surgery over a period of last six months.
Results:
We herein describe three such cases of incidental peritoneal TB detected during surgical exploration for other reasons.
Conclusion:
Diagnosis of disseminated peritoneal tuberculosis often remains a challenging task owing to its non specific clinical presentation and difficulty arises on seeing such a picture intraoperative and raises a question whether to proceed with the decided surgery or not. Frozen section can help in guiding further management but it is not definitive.
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