Desmond NM, Kingdon E, Beale TJ, Coker RJ, Tanner AG, Harris JW. Tuberculous pancreatic abscess: an unusual manifestation of HIV infection.
J R Soc Med 1995;
88:109P-110P. [PMID:
7769586 PMCID:
PMC1295112]
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Abstract
Pancreatic tuberculosis is unusual occurring in only 2.7% of autopsy studies of persons with miliary disease. Reports of focal pancreatic tuberculosis are rare, even in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in whom abdominal tuberculosis is a frequent feature. We describe two patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who developed tuberculous pancreatic abscesses. In both this was their AIDS-defining illness.
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