Isolated liver tuberculosis abscess in a patient without immunodefi ciency: A case report

• 作者: Abdelmalek Ousadden Amal Ankouz Karim Ibn Majdoub Hassani Khalid Ait Taleb Khalid Mazaz
• 来源期刊: 世界肝病学杂志：英文版（电子版）
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: LIVER ISOLATED ABSCESS TUBERCULOSIS SURGICAL drainage HISTOLOGICAL examination
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（9）
• 页码范围: 354-357
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: R521

摘要

Although hepatic tuberculosis is not a rare disease entity,tubercular liver abscess (TLA) is extremely rare.It is usually associated with foci of infection either in the lung and/or gastrointestinal tract or with an immunocompromised state.An isolated or primary TLA with no evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere is even rarer.We report on a 28 year old man who developed an isolated tuberculous liver abscess not associated with lung involvement.Ultrasonography and computed tomography of the abdomen showed the abscess lesions in the liver but the diagnosis of tuberculosis was conf irmed by histological examination of the wall of the abscess after surgical drainage.Although tuberculous liver abscess is very rare,it should be included in the differential diagnosis of abscess and unknown hepatic mass lesions.