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Obeidat AE, Namiki T, Murakami TT. More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy. Cureus. 2021;13(2):e13216doi: 10.7759/cureus.13216.
Obeidat, A. E., Namiki, T., & Murakami, T. T. (2021). More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy. Cureus, 13(2), e13216. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13216
Obeidat, Adham E, et al. "More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy." Cureus vol. 13,2 (2021): e13216. doi: https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13216
Obeidat AE, Namiki T, Murakami TT. More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy. Cureus. 2021 Feb 08;13(2):e13216. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13216. PMID: 33728169; PMCID: PMC7946609.
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Cureus. 2021 Feb 08;13(2):e13216. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13216.

More Than Just a Polyp: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis From a Screening Colonoscopy.

Cureus

Adham E Obeidat, Thomas Namiki, Traci T Murakami

Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, USA.
  2. Department of Pathology, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, USA.
  3. Department of Gastroenterology, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, USA.

PMID: 33728169 PMCID: PMC7946609 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.13216

Abstract

The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging to make due to the non-specific signs and symptoms that patients usually present with. Furthermore, the endoscopic appearance of colonic TB is not specific and can mimic other more common pathologies such as Crohn's disease and colonic malignancy. We report the case of a 66-year-old female who presented for a routine screening colonoscopy and was diagnosed with disseminated TB after histopathological examination of the discovered polyps.

Copyright © 2021, Obeidat et al.

Keywords: colon; colon cancer; colonoscopy; screening; tuberculosis

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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