Acute Appendicitis Associated with Mesenteric Tuberculosis: A Case Report

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical abdominal pathology in the world; its highest frequency is in the population between 20 and 30-years-old. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis is a rare extrapulmonary manifestation, corresponding to 3% of cases and mainly involving the ileocecal region; appendicular involvement is rare. We report the case of a 20-year-old male, with a history of HIV diagnosed in the same hospitalization, without previous treatment and with a clinical picture compatible with acute appendicitis, finding data suggestive of gastrointestinal tuberculosis when performing the surgical procedure and subsequently confirmed by histopathological study.