Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 88, Issue 2 109-110, Copyright © 1995 by Royal Society of Medicine
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
NM Desmond, E Kingdon, TJ Beale, RJ Coker, AG Tanner and JW Harris
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.
Pancreatic tuberculosis is unusual occurring in only 2.7% of autopsy studies of persons with miliary disease. Reports of focal pancreatic tuberculosis are rare, even in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in whom abdominal tuberculosis is a frequent feature. We describe two patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who developed tuberculous pancreatic abscesses. In both this was their AIDS-defining illness.