Pancreatic and peripancreatic tuberculosis presenting as hypoechoic mass and malignancy diagnosed by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology

Journal of Cytology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-135

  Rao, R N ^a   Pandey, Rakesh ^a   Rana, Manoj Kumar ^a   Rai, Praveer ^a   Gupta, Archna ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cystic neoplasms; endoscopic; pancreas; pancreatitis; tuberculosis; ultrasound FNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879124474     PISSN: 09709371     EISSN: 09745165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9371.112658     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bhansali SK. Abdominal tuberculosis. Experiences with 300 cases. Am J Gastroenterol 1977;67:324-37.
2. Woodfield JC, Windsor JA, Godfrey CC, Orr DA, Officer NM. Diagnosis and management of isolated pancreatic tuberculosis: Recent experience and literature review. ANZ J Surg 2004;74:368-71.
3. Xia F, Poon RT, Wang SG, Bie P, Huang XQ, Dong JH. Tuberculosis of pancreas and peripancreatic lymph nodes in immunocompetent patients: Experience from China. World J Gastroenterol 2003;9:1361-4.
4. Sanabe N, Ikematsu Y, Nishiwaki Y, Kida H, Murohisa G, Ozawa T, et al. Pancreatic tuberculosis. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2002;9:515-8.
5. Ahlawat SK, Charabaty-Pishvaian A, Lewis JH, Haddad NG. Pancreatic tuberculosis diagnosed with endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration. JOP 2005;6:598-602.
6. Chen CH, Yang CC, Yeh YH, Yang JC, Chou DA. Pancreatic tuberculosis with obstructive jaundice: A case report. Am J Gastroenterol 1999;94:2534-6.
7. Fan ST, Yan KW, Lau WY, Wong KK. Tuberculosis of the pancreas: Arare cause of massive gastrointestinal bleeding. Br J Surg 1986;73:373.
8. Rezeig MA, Fashir BM, Al-Suhaibani H, Al-Fadda M, Amin T, Eisa H. Pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking pancreatic carcinoma: Four case reports and review of the literature. Dig Dis Sci 1998;43:329-31.
9. D'Cruz S, Sachdev A, Kaur L, Handa U, Bhalla A, Lehl SS. Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of isolated pancreatic tuberculosis. A case report and review of literature. JOP 2003;4:158-62.
10. Franco-Paredes C, Leonard M, Jurado R, Blumberg HM, Smith RM. Tuberculosis of the pancreas: Report of two cases and review of the literature. Am J Med Sci 2002;323:54-8.
11. Ahlawat SK. EUS-guided FNA diagnosis of pancreatic tuberculosis. Gastrointest Endosc 2007;65:557-8.
12. Schneider A, von Birgelen C, Dührsen U, Gerken G, Rünzi M. Two cases of pancreatic tuberculosis in nonimmunocompromised patients. A diagnostic challenge and a rare cause of portal hypertension. Pancreatology 2002;2:69-73.
13. Jenney AW, Pickles RW, Hellard ME, Spelman DW, Fuller AJ, Spicer WJ. Tuberculous pancreatic abscess in an HIV antibody-negative patient: Case report and review. Scand J Infect Dis 1998;30:99-104.
14. Erickson RA. EUS-guided FNA. Gastrointest Endosc 2004;60:267-79.
15. Song TJ, Lee SS, Park do H, Lee TY, Lee SO, Seo DW, et al. Yield of EUS-guided FNA on the diagnosis of pancreatic/peripancreatic tuberculosis. Gastrointest Endosc 2009;69:484-91.
16. Gupta P, Guleria S, Agarwal S. Role of endoscopic ultrasound guided FNAC in diagnosis of pancreatic TB presenting as mass lesion: A case report and review of literature. Indian J Tuberc 2011;58:120-4.
17. Small G, Wilks D. Pancreatic mass caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis with reduced drug sensitivity. J Infect 2001;42:201-2.
18. Takhtani D, Gupta S, Suman K, Kakkar N, Challa S, Wig JD, et al. Radiology of pancreatic tuberculosis: A report of three cases. Am J Gastroenterol 1996;91:1832-4.
19. De Backer AI, Mortelé KJ, Bomans P, De Keulenaer BL, Vanschoubroeck IJ, Kockx MM. Tuberculosis of the pancreas: MRI features. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2005;184:50-4.
20. Bhatia V, Garg PK, Arora VK, Sharma R. Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking intraductal pancreatic mucinous tumor. Gastrointest Endosc 2008;68:610-1.
21. Evans JD, Hamanaka Y, Olliff SP, Neoptolemos JP. Tuberculosis of the pancreas presenting as metastatic pancreatic carcinoma. A case report and review of the literature. Dig Surg 2000;17:183-7.
22. Chang WC, Chu HC, Tsai SH, Huang GS, Cheng MF, Yu CY. An extraordinary presentation. Am J Med 2009;122:245-7.
23. Meesiri S. Pancreatic tuberculosis with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: A case report and systematic review. World J Gastroenterol 2012;18:720-6.
24. Chatterjee S, Schmid ML, Anderson K, Oppong KW. Tuberculosis and the pancreas: A diagnostic challenge solved by endoscopic ultrasound. A case series. J Gastrointestin Liver Dis 2012;21:105-7.
25. Pandita KK, Sarla, Dogra S. Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis. Indian J Med Microbiol 2009;27:259-60.
26. Rana SS, Bhasin DK, Rao C, Singh K. Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis mimicking focal pancreatitis and causing segmental portal hypertension. JOP 2010;11:393-5.
27. Itaba S, Yoshinaga S, Nakamura K, Mizutani T, Honda K, Takayanagi R, et al. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for the diagnosis of peripancreatic tuberculous lymphadenitis. J Gastroenterol 2007;42:83-6.
28. Asim S, Manjari L, Kenneth MS, Alexander CR, Christopher K, Khek-Yu H. Pancreatic tuberculous abscess diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. J Pak Med Assoc 2010;60:499-501.
29. Baraboutis I, Skoutelis A. Isolated tuberculosis of the pancreas. JOP 2004;5:155-8.
30. Mallery JS, Centeno BA, Hahn PF, Chang Y, Warshaw AL, Brugge WR. Pancreatic tissue sampling guided by EUS, CT/US, and surgery: A comparison of sensitivity and specificity. Gastrointest Endosc 2002;56:218-24.