Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report

Vanessa Salinas-Álvarez; Carolinie Gómez-Torres; Julián Garzón-Cubides; Luis Carlos Gómez-Mier; Camilo Soto-Montoya

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.059

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report

Vanessa Salinas-Álvarez
, Carolinie Gómez-Torres
, Julián Garzón-Cubides
, Luis Carlos Gómez-Mier
, Camilo Soto-Montoya

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This is a case report that includes an analysis about extrapulmonary tuberculosis and his singularities, cause can be confused with cancer. Our patient an 83-year-old woman from Pasto-Colombia presents a mimicking metastasis with melanoma. This guides us to understand that extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a rare pathology, but it should be considered as a potential differential diagnosis of any osteolytic lesion. That is the reasons for to be one of the great imitators in medicine, we come up with are totally necessary in a differential diagnosis with malignancies, a high index of suspicion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2471-2476
Number of pages	6
Journal	Radiology Case Reports
Volume	15
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.059
State	Published - Nov 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Extrapulmonary
Metastases
Pseudotumoral
Soft tissue
Tuberculosis

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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report

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