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Case Report

Appendicular Mass–A Rare Form of Tuberculosis

by
Petrișor Banu
1,2,*,
Vlad D. Constantin
1,2,
Florian Popa
1,2,
Mircea Brătucu
1,3,
Teodora Vlădescu
4 and
Cristian Bălălău
1,2
1
Department of Surgery, Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania
2
Department of Surgery, St. Pantelimon Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
3
Department of Surgery, Carol Davila Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
4
Department of Anatomic Pathology, St. Pantelimon Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Mind Med. Sci. 2017, 4(1), 80-84; https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.41.P8084
Submission received: 25 January 2017 / Revised: 25 February 2017 / Accepted: 25 March 2017 / Published: 31 March 2017

Abstract

Tuberculosis is in the top 10 causes of death worldwide, being one of the most deadly infectious diseases. It is estimated that one of three people from the entire earth population has a latent infection with M tuberculosis. This aerobic bacterium possesses the ability to persist in host tissues for years and to begin replication once immunity declines. The lungs are most frequent site of infection as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis is carried by aerosol droplets and is commonly transmitted by respiratory route. The second way of transmission is by contaminated food. Intestinal contamination coexists with pulmonary tuberculosis and only 10% represent primitive enteric diseases. The ileocecal region is involved most frequently. Even in this context isolated appendicular involvement remains rare. We report the case of appendicular tuberculosis in a 17-year-old woman with no evidence of other location of disease elsewhere in the body.
Keywords: tuberculosis; extrapulmonary; appendicular mass tuberculosis; extrapulmonary; appendicular mass

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Banu, P.; Constantin, V.D.; Popa, F.; Brătucu, M.; Vlădescu, T.; Bălălău, C. Appendicular Mass–A Rare Form of Tuberculosis. J. Mind Med. Sci. 2017, 4, 80-84. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.41.P8084

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Banu P, Constantin VD, Popa F, Brătucu M, Vlădescu T, Bălălău C. Appendicular Mass–A Rare Form of Tuberculosis. Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences. 2017; 4(1):80-84. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.41.P8084

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Banu, Petrișor, Vlad D. Constantin, Florian Popa, Mircea Brătucu, Teodora Vlădescu, and Cristian Bălălău. 2017. "Appendicular Mass–A Rare Form of Tuberculosis" Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences 4, no. 1: 80-84. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.41.P8084

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Banu, P., Constantin, V. D., Popa, F., Brătucu, M., Vlădescu, T., & Bălălău, C. (2017). Appendicular Mass–A Rare Form of Tuberculosis. Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 4(1), 80-84. https://doi.org/10.22543/7674.41.P8084

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