Incidental detection of disseminated peritoneal tuberculosis-varied presentation.

Background: Incidental peritoneal tuberculosis represents an uncommon variety of peritoneal tuberculosis and surgeons must be aware of this entity particularly in tuberculosis endemic zones.

Methods: We prospectively analysed cases of incidental peritoneal tuberculosis detected during surgery over a period of last six months.

Results: We herein describe three such cases of incidental peritoneal TB detected during surgical exploration for other reasons.

Conclusion: Diagnosis of disseminated peritoneal tuberculosis often remains a challenging task owing to its non specific clinical presentation and difficulty arises on seeing such a picture intraoperative and raises a question whether to proceed with the decided surgery or not. Frozen section can help in guiding further management but it is not definitive.