Clinical Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Metastatic angiosarcoma of unknown primary site misdiagnosed as tuberculosis

  • Mwakyula Issakwisa,
  • Ngwilo Mwakyusa,
  • Liset Torres,
  • Cecilia Ngatunga,
  • Baraka Chaula,
  • Haika Maro,
  • Lazaro Mboma,
  • Irene Nguma,
  • Lamla Nqwata,
  • Leodegard Mujwahuzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3243
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 12
pp. 3017 – 3022

Abstract

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Abstract Tuberculosis in endemic areas is likely to be overdiagnosed in patients with atypical clinical and imaging findings mimicking tuberculosis, as in our case of angiosarcoma. Detailed history, physical examination, imaging, and histopathology avert diagnosis of tumors as tuberculosis in resource‐limited settings, where countless diseases have common clinical and imaging presentations.

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