{"title":"A Rare Cause of Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children: Isolated Mesenteric Tuberculous Lymphadenitis","authors":"Aziz Serhat Baykara, A. Yilmaz, K. Cetin","doi":"10.12996/gmj.2023.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis is one of the main causes of death due to infections in the world. Extrapulmonary infection accounts for one third of the cases, of which abdominal tuberculosis may present with mesenteric lymphadenitis, peritonitis, gastrointestinal system involvement or solid organ involvement. Among them, isolated mesenteric tuberculous lymphadenitis (IMTL) is a type of extrapulmonary disease characterized by the involvement of intraabdominal lymph nodes mostly due to lymphohematogenous spread of primary mycobacterium tuberculosis. IMTL is a rare clinical entity in children and is often associated with underlying immunosuppressive disorders. Chronic abdominal pain, intermittent fever, and weight loss are the classic clinical presentations of this disease. In this paper, a rare case of IMTL in a healthy fifteen-year-old girl is reported.","PeriodicalId":42791,"journal":{"name":"Gazi Medical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Gazi Medical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2023.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Tuberculosis is one of the main causes of death due to infections in the world. Extrapulmonary infection accounts for one third of the cases, of which abdominal tuberculosis may present with mesenteric lymphadenitis, peritonitis, gastrointestinal system involvement or solid organ involvement. Among them, isolated mesenteric tuberculous lymphadenitis (IMTL) is a type of extrapulmonary disease characterized by the involvement of intraabdominal lymph nodes mostly due to lymphohematogenous spread of primary mycobacterium tuberculosis. IMTL is a rare clinical entity in children and is often associated with underlying immunosuppressive disorders. Chronic abdominal pain, intermittent fever, and weight loss are the classic clinical presentations of this disease. In this paper, a rare case of IMTL in a healthy fifteen-year-old girl is reported.
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Gazi Medical Journal is being published from 1990 four times annually. Gazi Medical Journal is an international journal presenting research results in all medical fields, with the aim of becoming the premier source of high quality research from Eastern Europe , Middle East and Asia. The Gazi Medical Journal is peer-reviewed and is published quarterly in paper and electronic version. The language of the Gazi Medical Journal is English and Turkish. Offerings include research articles, rapid communications, case reports, letters to the editor, meta-analyses and commentaries