Abdominal lymphadenopathy:An atypical presentation of enteric fever

作     者：Nayla Ahmed Zeb I Saeed Muhammad Tariq 

作者机构：Medical CollegeAga Khan University Department of MedicineAga Khan University Hospital 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第2卷第5期

页      面：409-410页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Salmonella Tuberculosis Abdominal lymphadenopathy(Peyer’s patches 

摘      要：This is a case report of a patient who presented to the Aga Khan University Hospital with generalized abdominal lymphadenopathy and high-grade *** to ambiguous clinical findings,which were suggestive of either abdominal tuberculosis,or a lymphoma,the patient was started on empirical anti-tuberculous treatment due to the endemicity of tuberculosis in this *** blood culture reports,however,were reported to grow colonies of Salmonella paratyphi A;thus the diagnosis of the patient was changed to enteric fever,and the patient improved on the subsequently started therapy of ceftriaxone 2000 mg *** the best of our knowledge,this is the first reported case of a patient suffering from enteric fever whose primary clinical findings were abdominal lymphadenopathy and fever.