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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2019; 40(04): 591-593
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_105_18
Letter to Editor

Mistaken Identity for Gastric Carcinoma

Ajaz Nabi Koul
Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Aadil Rafeeq Rather
Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Abstract

Isolated gastric tuberculosis, without evidence of pulmonary or other gastrointestinal involvement, is extremely rare. Due to inaccurate clinical diagnoses, most patients end up requiring surgical intervention,only after which is gastric tuberculosis diagnosed. we present a case where this dilemma between tuberculosis and malignancy costed the patient half of his stomach.

Keywords

Gastric carcinoma - granulomas - tuberculosis


Publication History

Received: 05 May 2018

Accepted: 21 June 2018

Article published online:
03 June 2021

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