Unusual presentation of tuberculosis in an elderly male: a case report

Tuberculous liver abscess is an extremely rare condition, even in tuberculosis endemic countries. A 68-year-old male presented with 2 months of fever, significant weight loss, and hepatomegaly. Ultrasonography revealed a right hepatic lobe abscess. Guided aspiration of the fluid showed tubercular ba...

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Autores principales: Kandel, Ramesh, Bhattarai, Bhawana, Maharjan, Santosh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25678973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.144
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description Tuberculous liver abscess is an extremely rare condition, even in tuberculosis endemic countries. A 68-year-old male presented with 2 months of fever, significant weight loss, and hepatomegaly. Ultrasonography revealed a right hepatic lobe abscess. Guided aspiration of the fluid showed tubercular bacilli. He had no evidence of active Tuberculosis elsewhere.
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spelling pubmed-43172112015-02-12 Unusual presentation of tuberculosis in an elderly male: a case report Kandel, Ramesh Bhattarai, Bhawana Maharjan, Santosh Clin Case Rep Case Reports Tuberculous liver abscess is an extremely rare condition, even in tuberculosis endemic countries. A 68-year-old male presented with 2 months of fever, significant weight loss, and hepatomegaly. Ultrasonography revealed a right hepatic lobe abscess. Guided aspiration of the fluid showed tubercular bacilli. He had no evidence of active Tuberculosis elsewhere. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015-01 2014-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4317211/ /pubmed/25678973 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.144 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_short Unusual presentation of tuberculosis in an elderly male: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317211/
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