Peritoneal carcinomatosis mimicking a peritoneal tuberculosis

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Symptoms of a peritoneal progression from ovarian cancer are nonspecific such as abdominal pain, abdominaldistention and more. Many imaging studies and serum CA-125 help diagnosis. However, it is difficult to exclude theinstances of the diffuse peritoneal diseases that mimic carcinomatosis. The elevated CA-125 level usually correlateswith the peritoneal carcimatosis, but it is often found in other peritoneal diseases. Therefore, the pathologicconfirmation is necessary because of other mimicking diseases. In our case, CA-125 levels were elevated. Abdominalcomputed tomography finding was suspected a peritoneal tuberculosis but the pathologic result was the peritonealcarcimatosis, eventually.

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