Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions

Hepatic tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Hepatic tuberculous lesions are especially mimicking tumour-like mass or cystic lesions in the liver and so can be misdiagnosed with several diseases. Histopathological examination of the specimen is essential in the diagn...

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Autores principales: Parsak, Cem Kaan, Hanta, Ismail, Aslan, Ahmet, Alabaz, Omer
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2008
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Published: January 2008
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000113221
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author Parsak, Cem Kaan
Hanta, Ismail
Aslan, Ahmet
Alabaz, Omer
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Hanta, Ismail
Aslan, Ahmet
Alabaz, Omer
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description Hepatic tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Hepatic tuberculous lesions are especially mimicking tumour-like mass or cystic lesions in the liver and so can be misdiagnosed with several diseases. Histopathological examination of the specimen is essential in the diagnosis for hepatic tuberculosis. In this report, two cases with hepatic tuberculosis having cystic solid mass and abscess liver lesions are described.
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spelling pubmed-30751602011-04-13 Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions Parsak, Cem Kaan Hanta, Ismail Aslan, Ahmet Alabaz, Omer Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: January 2008 Hepatic tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Hepatic tuberculous lesions are especially mimicking tumour-like mass or cystic lesions in the liver and so can be misdiagnosed with several diseases. Histopathological examination of the specimen is essential in the diagnosis for hepatic tuberculosis. In this report, two cases with hepatic tuberculosis having cystic solid mass and abscess liver lesions are described. S. Karger AG 2008-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3075160/ /pubmed/21490832 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000113221 Text en Copyright © 2008 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: January 2008
Parsak, Cem Kaan
Hanta, Ismail
Aslan, Ahmet
Alabaz, Omer
Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title_full Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title_fullStr Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title_full_unstemmed Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title_short Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis Presenting as Cystic-Like and Tumour-Like Mass Lesions
title_sort isolated hepatic tuberculosis presenting as cystic-like and tumour-like mass lesions
topic Published: January 2008
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000113221
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