Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of isolated pancreatic tuberculosis: A case report

Table 1 Summary of reported cases of pancreatic tuberculosis from India in the last 5 years

Ref.	Age (yr)/sex	Presenting symptoms	Pulmonary tuberculosis	Location	Nature of mass	Lymph nodes	Invasion	Pancreatic duct and bile ducts	Presumptive diagnosis	Confirmation of diagnosis	ATT with duration	Outcome
Ray et al[12]	50/Female	Pain abdomen	-	Head	Cystic	Present	None	Normal	Pancreatic malignancy	CT guided FNAC	HRZE 6 mo	Good
	15/Female	Pain abdomen, weight loss	-	Head	Cystic	Present	None	Normal	Pancreatic malignancy	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE	Good
											6 mo
	13/Female	Pain abdomen, weight loss	-	Head	Cystic	Present	None	Normal	Pancreatic malignancy	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE	Good
											6 mo
Arora et al[13]	48/Male	Pain abdomen, weight loss	-	Head	Cystic	Absent	None	Bile Duct dilatation	Pancreatic malignancy	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE 6 mo	Good
Gupta et al[14]	24/Male	Pain abdomen, jaundice	-	Head	Cystic	Absent	Portal vein, splenic artery, hepatic artery	Biliary radicles and bile duct dilatation	Pancreatic malignancy	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE	Good
											8 mo
Rana et al[15]	40/Female	Pain abdomen, jaundice	-	Head	Cystic	Absent	Portal vein	Pancreatic and common bile duct dilatation	Pancreatic malignancy	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE х 2, HR х 10	Good
Singh et al[16]	45/Female	Pain abdomen, bilious vomiting	-	Head and uncinate process	Cystic	Present	Duodenu, portal vein	Pancreatic and common bile duct dilatation	Pancreatic malignancy	Laparotomy and Whipple's Pancreati coduodene ctomy	HRZE х 3 until first follow up	Good
Pandita et al[17]	28/Female	Pain abdomen, dyspepsia	-	Head and body	Cystic	Absent	None	Normal	Pancreatic malignancy	CT guided FNAC	HRES	Good
											1 yr
Bhatia et al[18]	36/Male	Epigastric pain abdomen	Past history: 4 yr back	Head and body	Cystic	Absent	Right lobe of liver	Not dilated	Intraductal pancreatic mucinous tumour	EUS guided FNAC	HRZE	Good
											8 mo

CT: Computed tomography; EUS: Endoscopic ultrasound; FNAC: Fine needle aspiration cytology.