Open AccessGallbladder Tuberculosis Presenting as Obstructive Jaundice
Author(s) -
Bharti Varshney,
Poonam Elhence,
Subhash Chandra Soni,
Vaibhav Kumar Varshney,
Taruna Yadav,
Souvik Saha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
acg case reports journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.112
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 2326-3253
DOI - 10.14309/crj.0000000000000414
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , obstructive jaundice , tuberculosis , gallbladder , histopathological examination , jaundice , cholecystectomy , cholecystitis , general surgery , radiology , pathology
ABSTRACT Isolated gallbladder tuberculosis is a rare entity, even in endemic zones. Preoperative diagnosis is usually not possible, with most of the cases being diagnosed either as cholecystitis or malignancy. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen clinches the diagnosis. We present a middle-aged man with obstructive jaundice who was diagnosed to have gallbladder malignancy clinically and radiologically and on microscopy, and was diagnosed as gallbladder tuberculosis with the involvement of the common bile duct.