PRIMARY PYLORODUODENAL TUBERCULOSIS PRESENTING AS GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION

Abstract

A 45-year-old female patient from Jimma town was admitted to Jimma university teaching hospital on November 2002 for chief complaint of severe vomiting of ingested material that failed to respond to the routine antacid medications. The patient was diagnosed as a case of gastric outlet obstruction secondary to primary pylorodeudenal tuberculosis. The overall clinical presentations as well as laboratory and histopathology reports are discussed. [Ethiop J Health Sci 2003; 13(2):131-133]