“…It has been postulated that tuberculosis bacilli reach the pancreas only by hematogenous dissemination from undetectable lesions or by extension from contiguous lymph nodes [4,7]. Clinical findings are unspecific and may include chronic abdominal pain [2,3,[7][8][9][10][11][12], pseudoneoplasic obstructive jaundice [4,11,[13][14][15], digestive bleeding [16], chronic or acute pancreatitis, or pancreatic abscess [15,17]. In this case, the initial clinical finding was jaundice, due to blockage of the common bile duct by a pancreatic mass.…”