Juan Felipe Ramírez Garcia, Carmen Nataly Diaz Chalco, Yvan Cristobal Bermudez Cruzado
Tuberculous lymphadenitis is the most common entity of abdominal tuberculosis, which occurs due to reactivation of a latent focus. Its diagnosis requires a high degree of suspicion, for which it requires endoscopic, radiological, and histopathological studies. In the evaluation of lymphadenopathies, endoscopic ultrasound-guided aspiration puncture plays an important role. We present the case of a 22-year-old male patient who was admitted to the Emergency Department of the Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to tuberculous mesenteric lymphadenitis that compromised the gastric wall...
October 2021: Revista de Gastroenterología del Perú: órgano Oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterología del Perú