Gastric tuberculosis

Gastric tuberculosis is the rarest form of tuberculosis infection in human organs. Benjamin (1933) was able to collect only 225 cases from the world literature, while Good had only 3 cases of gastric tuberculosis in 7,416 cases of gastric surgery, which shows that the disease is very rare. There are many patients with advanced tuberculosis with intestinal tuberculosis and so few with gastric tuberculosis. The mechanism is unknown, or it is related to the bactericidal power of the stomach and the lack of lymphatic follicles in the stomach wall.

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