Adrenal gland primary tuberculosis: report of two cases

Authors

  • Natalia Coras Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Perú. Médico Asistente.
  • José Somocurcio Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Perú. Médico Jefe.
  • Cristian Aguilar Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, EsSalud, Lima, Perú. Médico Residente.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v74i3.2639

Keywords:

Adrenal glands, adrenal tuberculosis, adrenal insufficiency.

Abstract

Tuberculosis is highly prevalent and is still currently the leading cause of adrenal insufficiency in many areas of the world. Clinically this disease remains asymptomatic during early stages, but due to adrenal function loss symptoms become insidious and gradual, mostly unspecific. We report two cases of female patients with clinical symptoms of chronic bilateral primary adrenal insufficiency with active tuberculosis infection by histopathology.

Downloads

Published

2013-09-16

Issue

Vol. 74 No. 3 (2013)

Section

Casos clínicos

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Natalia Coras, José Somocurcio, Cristian Aguilar

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Those authors who have publications with this magazine accept the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyrights and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to Creative Commons Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and its first publication this magazine are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (eg, deposit it in an institutional electronic file or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this magazine is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work over the Internet (eg: in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which It can produce interesting exchanges and increase quotes from the published work. (See El efecto del acceso abierto ).

How to Cite

1.
Coras N, Somocurcio J, Aguilar C. Adrenal gland primary tuberculosis: report of two cases. An Fac med [Internet]. 2013 Sep. 16 [cited 2024 Jul. 17];74(3):221-6. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/2639