Tuberculosis of biliary tract: a rare cause of common bile duct stricture

Abstract

biliary stricture have been reported in the English literature 1–11 , and only one case from the Middle East. The more common benign causes of biliary stenosis are postoperative cicatricial stenosis and complications of chronic pancreatitis, duodenal papillitis and congenital biliary dilatation. The main symptoms of tuberculosis biliary stricture including jaundice and weight loss are usually indistinguishable from those of other diseases such as cholangiocarcinoma. Although the presence of past history or chest X-ray changes of tuberculosis may raise the suspicion of this aetiology, most of the reported cases are diagnosed based on surgical pathology. We report a rare cause of common bile duct (CBD) stricture in tuberculosis of the biliary