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Disseminated congenital tuberculosis presenting as peritonitis in an infant

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Congenital tuberculosis is a rare disease which is curable after early diagnosis. Making an early diagnosis of tuberculosis in an infant is difficult, however, because of its nonspecific clinical findings. It therefore requires a high index of suspicion. In this paper we report the case of an infant with disseminated congenital tuberculosis involving the chest, liver, spleen, abdominal lymph nodes, mesentery, and peritoneum, and which presented as chylous ascites with peritonitis.

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  1. Department of Radiology, St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, #62, Yeouido-dong, Yongdungpo-gu, Seoul, 150-713, Korea

    Mi Hyun Lee & Gye-Yeon Lim

  2. Department of Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    Jae Hee Chung

  3. Department of Pediatrics, St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    So-Young Kim

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Lee, M.H., Lim, GY., Chung, J.H. et al. Disseminated congenital tuberculosis presenting as peritonitis in an infant. Jpn J Radiol 31, 282–285 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11604-012-0174-4

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