Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature

Hepatic tuberculosis is not commonly seen, and it can be easily missed unless there is strong suspicion. It presents clinically with non-specific symptoms like pain in the upper right abdomen, tenderness, mild fever, sweating at night, losing weight, feeling tired, and a lump in the abdomen. We are...

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Autores principales: Bahurupe, Suchita, Dhote, Sandip, Phatak, Suresh, Mitra, Kajal, Onkar, Prashant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10682439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38034257
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47889
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author Bahurupe, Suchita
Dhote, Sandip
Phatak, Suresh
Mitra, Kajal
Onkar, Prashant
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description Hepatic tuberculosis is not commonly seen, and it can be easily missed unless there is strong suspicion. It presents clinically with non-specific symptoms like pain in the upper right abdomen, tenderness, mild fever, sweating at night, losing weight, feeling tired, and a lump in the abdomen. We are reporting a case of a 41-year-old female who presented with an intermittent history of fever and right hypochondriac pain for 10 years. Ultrasound and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) scans of the patient revealed a mass lesion with classical imaging findings of tuberculosis. Subsequently, a biopsy was conducted, confirming the presence of liver tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-106824392023-11-30 Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature Bahurupe, Suchita Dhote, Sandip Phatak, Suresh Mitra, Kajal Onkar, Prashant Cureus Pathology Hepatic tuberculosis is not commonly seen, and it can be easily missed unless there is strong suspicion. It presents clinically with non-specific symptoms like pain in the upper right abdomen, tenderness, mild fever, sweating at night, losing weight, feeling tired, and a lump in the abdomen. We are reporting a case of a 41-year-old female who presented with an intermittent history of fever and right hypochondriac pain for 10 years. Ultrasound and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) scans of the patient revealed a mass lesion with classical imaging findings of tuberculosis. Subsequently, a biopsy was conducted, confirming the presence of liver tuberculosis. Cureus 2023-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10682439/ /pubmed/38034257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47889 Text en Copyright © 2023, Bahurupe et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mitra, Kajal
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Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title_full Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title_fullStr Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title_short Liver Tuberculosis Presenting As Fever of Unknown Origin: A Case Report and Imaging Spectrum With a Review of Literature
title_sort liver tuberculosis presenting as fever of unknown origin: a case report and imaging spectrum with a review of literature
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10682439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38034257
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47889
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