Isolated Splenic Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Rare Case

摘要

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent.?Despite early diagnosis and improvements in medical science, the incidence of the disease is still a major public health problem in developing countries. Splenic tuberculosis?is quite rare and occurs mostly as a part of miliary tuberculosis?in individuals with immunosuppression. Isolated splenic tuberculosis is extremely rare in?immunocompetent patients. We report a?case of an immunocompetent man with isolated splenic tuberculosis.