ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS WITH SYNCHRONUS COLON CARCINOMA - A CASE REPORT

Coexisting abdominal tuberculosis and colon carcinoma is a rare entity. We had a patient who was diagnosed as a case of carcinoma involving ascending colon, hepatic flexure and transverse colon. Diagnostic laparoscopy followed by an elective laparotomy and extended right hemicolectomy was done. Histopathology showed features of both malignancy and tuberculosis. We reviewed the literature and found that very few cases have been reported and most of them have some common features. World literature reports only 67 cases of tuberculosis (TB) and colonic carcinoma occurring simultaneously. A few examples of the same in the Indian context are on record but adenocarcinoma and tuberculosis occurring same site is exceedingly rare.