[Acute disseminated tuberculosis with pancytopenia and a favorable outcome]

The authors report a case of febrile pancytopenia of tuberculous origin with a normal chest X-ray at the outset. The diagnosis was virtually confirmed by bone marrow biopsy, even before the result of AAFB cultures. The course was rapidly favorable under the influence of triple anti-tuberculous therapy, with normalisation of the bone marrow biopsy. The degree of thrombocytopenia would seem to be of considerable prognostic interest.