Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Infectious Diseases
Tuberculous Liver Abscess Not Associated with Lung Involvement
Mitsutoshi HAYASHIIsao YAMAWAKIKiyotaka OKAJIMAMasahiko TOMIMATSUShin-ichiro OHKAWA
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2004 Volume 43 Issue 6 Pages 521-523

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Hepatic tuberculosis is one of the uncommon forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report a 78-year-old woman who developed tuberculous liver abscesses with splenic abscess not associated with pulmonary foci. Ultrasonography and computed tomography of the abdomen showed the low-density lesions in the liver and spleen. Histopathology of specimens obtained by percutaneous needle biopsy revealed coagulation necrosis and epithelioid cells but not tumor cells, suggesting tuberculosis infection in the liver and spleen. Systemic chemotherapy with anti-tuberculous agents led to the improvement of the lesions in the liver as well as spleen. Although tuberculous liver abscess is a very rare case, it should be included in the differential diagnosis of unknown hepatic mass lesions.

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© 2004 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
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