Peritoneal tuberculosis: A case report on a rare cause of tumor marker elevation

• Main Authors: Dilek Sen (Author), Joshua Brunton (Author), Landon Melchior (Author), David Klein (Author), Gillian H. Levy (Author), Booth Wainscoat (Author), Linus Chuang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare extrapulmonary manifestation of TB with non-specific clinical characteristics which can produce test results mimicking malignancy and granulomatous peritonitis. This case describes a Filipino 59-year-old, nulliparous woman who was admitted with abdominal pain,...