Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: mimicking metastases in a patient with melanoma in a high TB-burden country; case report

• Main Authors: Vanessa Salinas-Álvarez, MD, Carolinie Gómez-Torres, MD, Julián Garzón-Cubides, MD, Luis Carlos Gómez-Mier, MD, Camilo Soto-Montoya, MD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
• Series: Radiology Case Reports
• Subjects: Tuberculosis; Extrapulmonary; Pseudotumoral; Soft tissue; Metastases
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043320304544
• ISSN: 1930-0433

This is a case report that includes an analysis about extrapulmonary tuberculosis and his singularities, cause can be confused with cancer. Our patient an 83-year-old woman from Pasto-Colombia presents a mimicking metastasis with melanoma. This guides us to understand that extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a rare pathology, but it should be considered as a potential differential diagnosis of any osteolytic lesion. That is the reasons for to be one of the great imitators in medicine, we come up with are totally necessary in a differential diagnosis with malignancies, a high index of suspicion.