TY - JOUR
T1 - Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
T2 - mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report
AU - Salinas-Álvarez, Vanessa
AU - Gómez-Torres, Carolinie
AU - Garzón-Cubides, Julián
AU - Gómez-Mier, Luis Carlos
AU - Soto-Montoya, Camilo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Extrapulmonary
KW - Metastases
KW - Pseudotumoral
KW - Soft tissue
KW - Tuberculosis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091639988&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.059
DO - 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091639988
SN - 1930-0433
VL - 15
SP - 2471
EP - 2476
JO - Radiology Case Reports
JF - Radiology Case Reports
IS - 11
ER -
