Background: To review the clinical findings of pancreatic tuberculosis and to establish a differential diagnosis with pancreatic tumours.
Patients and methods: To describe three cases of pancreatic tuberculosis diagnosed in a 850 bed teaching hospital during the last two years.
Results: In the three case the imaging procedures showed a pancreatic mass with hipodens area. One of the cases was erroneously initially diagnosed of a pancreatic tumour. In one case was diagnosed by a subcutaneus abscess punture, in another by clinical suspicion and in third pacient by laparotomy. Only one patient was immunosuppressed. All patients were cured with standar antituberculous therapy.
Conclusions: Pancreatic tuberculosis should be considered in patients presenting with pancreatic tumours.
