Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report

INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: We report...

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Autores principales: Shokouhi, Shervin, Toolabi, Karamollah, Tehrani, Shabnam, Hemmatian, Marjan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25713592
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Hemmatian, Marjan
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description INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: 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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spelling pubmed-43380532015-02-24 Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report Shokouhi, Shervin Toolabi, Karamollah Tehrani, Shabnam Hemmatian, Marjan Tanaffos Case Report INTRODUCTION: 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. CASE PRESENTATION: 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. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4338053/ /pubmed/25713592 Text en Copyright © 2014 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report
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title_full_unstemmed Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report
title_short Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report
title_sort tuberculous liver abscess in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
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