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Rudwaleit, M. and Baeten, D. (2006) Ankylosing Spondylitis and Bowel Disease. Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 20, 451-471.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.berh.2006.03.010

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• TITLE: Necrotizing Sarcoid Granulomatosis with Concurrent Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Case Mimicking Pulmonary Tuberculosis

  AUTHORS: Dineshpersad Jiawan, Rakesh Bansie, Mikel Chan, Iswardath Thakoer, Fitzgerald A. Gopie

  KEYWORDS: Case Report, Necrotizing Sarcoid Granulomatosis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Tuberculosis

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Tuberculosis Research, Vol.13 No.4, December 2, 2025

  ABSTRACT: Histologic tuberculosis eventually turned out to be necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis, a rare disease. A retired TB ward nurse with recurrent uveitis, a positive TST, pulmonary masses and skeletal pain was diagnosed with clinical tuberculosis (TB) and treated with first line tuberculostatic drugs, but the chest X-ray did not improve after treatment completion. Ensuing reassessment of the pulmonary biopsy resulted in a diagnosis of pulmonary necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis (NSG) and concurrent ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a very rare combination of inflammatory diseases. Uveitis can be a symptom of TB or AS or NSG, the last being a rare disorder of unknown etiology, mimicking tuberculosis.