Extrapulmonary tuberculosis mimicking gynecological malignancies

Bahar Sevgili; Muhammed Ali Kaypak; Rıfat Somay; Sabri Atalay; Şükran Köse; Harun Akar

doi:10.5606/fng.btd.2019.006

Bahar Sevgili¹, Muhammed Ali Kaypak¹, Rıfat Somay², Sabri Atalay², Şükran Köse², Harun Akar¹

¹Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Izmir Tepecik SUAM, Izmir, Turkey
²Department of Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, University of Health Sciences, Izmir Tepecik SUAM, Izmir, Turkey

Keywords: Difficulty in diagnosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, gynaecological malignancies

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a widespread public health problem, which is mostly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Typical clinical presentation is pulmonary tuberculosis. On the other hand, extrapulmonary tuberculosis is not uncommon, also challenging the clinicians for diagnosis. In this article, we present a young female patient who was ultimately diagnosed with tuberculosis, which we had difficulty diagnosing at the postnatal period, that mimicked hepatic or gynecological malignancies.