Isolated splenic tuberculosis in immunocompetent patient: A rare occurrence

Abstract

Vikas Tyagi, Snigdha Goyal, Sunder Goyal

Globally millions of people are affected by tuberculosis (TB) each year and India has the largest number of TB cases both pulmonary and extrapulmonary. Extrapulmonary TB affecting spleen is quite rare and occurs mostly as a part of miliary tuber-culosis in immunocompromised patients. In the Immunocompetent patients, isolated splenic tuberculosis is extremely rare. Herein, we present the case of an immunocompetent female with isolated splenic tuberculosis.