Tuberculous liver abscess in an immunocompetent patient: a case report. 2014

Shervin Shokouhi, and Karamollah Toolabi, and Shabnam Tehrani, and Marjan Hemmatian
Department of Infectious Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

BACKGROUND Tuberculous or tubercular liver abscess (TLA) is a rare manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of mass or cystic lesions of the liver especially in a high TB prevalence country like Iran. METHODS We report an immunocompetent 48 year-old woman with TLA and peritoneal infection. Although hepatic TLA is very rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of mass or cystic lesions of the liver especially in a high TB prevalence country.

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