Splenic Tuberculosis: A case report

Abstract

Splenic Tuberculosis is a rare entity, particularly among immunocompetent hosts. Hererin, we present a 23 year-old man who was reffered with fever of unknown origin and eventually diagnosed to have splenic tuberculosis with an involvement of a single axillary lymph node as the sole site disease in the other organs.Despite two months of treatment with antituberculous agents due to necrotising granulomatous lesion of axillary lymphadenitis, the patient underwent splenectomy for complete recovery. It seems that in this rare from of tuberculosis, splenectomy in addition to standard antituberculosis treatment is curative

Keywords

• Splenic tuberculosis
• Splenectomy