Introduction:
Abdominal tuberculosis can affect many organs in the peritoneal cavity such as the gastrointestinal tract, peritoneum, lymph nodes, spleen, and liver ..it can affect one organ or many in combination[1]. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis presentation is varied depending on the site which is involved [2]. Its diagnosis is specifically difficult and this is explained by differential diagnoses that can mimic the various manifestations of gastrointestinal TB, including infectious and noninfectious causes[3]. Tuberculosis of the stomach is the rarest form and it is generally misdiagnosed because it can mimic a gastric tumor[4].
We report here a case of mesenteric tuberculous lymphadenitis that had involved the gastric wall and had mimicked a gastric submucosal tumor with no evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere.