Background: Acute tuberculous appendicitis is a rare disease. It constitutes from 0.001 % to 0.01 % of the clinical forms of tuberculosis. We present cases of such disease as probably cause for surgical acute abdomen. Case report: Male aged 29 with mild to moderate diffuse abdominal pain, which intensified and localized in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen, fever, vomiting, malaise, leukocytosis (11,300/µL) and 91 % neutrophils. Appendectomy was performed, the histopathological report was acute appendicitis, Ziehl-Neelsen stain was positive. Three days later he returned home and had no short- or long term complications. Conclusion: Acute tuberculous appendicitis is a rare disease that may cause acute abdomen, patients should receive drug treatment to eradicate the cause and have proper epidemiological monitoring.
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Montiel-Jarquín, Á. J., Alvarado-Ortega, I., Romero-Figueroa, M. del S., Rodríguez-Pérez, F., Rodríguez-Lima, F., & Loria-Castellanos, J. (2017). Abdome agudo ocasionado por apendicite aguda tuberculosa. Informe de um caso. Iatreia, 30(3), 321–325. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.v30n3a07
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