PANCREATIC TUBERCULOUS PSEUDOTUMOR

A 59 year-old male with a toxic syndrome an a pancreatic pseudotumoral mass. Two pancreatic fine needle aspiration cytologies were negative. Liver and pancreatic surgical biopsies showed a chronic granulomatous tuberculous inflammation. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated in the gastric juice; the urine and sputum cultures was negative. Tubercu lostatic treatment with Rifampicin, Isoniazid and Ethambutol was effec tive. We emphasize the importance of the histological diagnosis in all of pancreatic mass.