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- Title
Liver tuberculosis: report of a case.
- Authors
Cece, Hasan; Abuhandan, Mahmut; Karakas, Ekrem; Yıldız, Sema; Calik, Mustafa
- Abstract
Tuberculosis is a very important public health problem in Turkey. However, tubercular involvement of the liver is uncommon. Occasionally, the illness might present as fever of unknown origin. An 8-month-old male infant presented with irritability and high fever, restlessness, no weight gain, and refusal of breast milk. The establishment of a diagnosis of liver tuberculosis is difficult, particularly because of the obscure extrapulmonary features of tuberculosis. Clinical and radiological findings of liver tuberculoma are of low specificity, and histopathological plus bacteriological confirmation is necessary. In our case, the diagnosis of hepatic tuberculosis was established via histopathological examination of a hepatic nodule. In this manuscript, we presented a case with hepatic tuberculosis since this is a rare extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ACADEMIC medical centers; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; MEDICAL care; PATIENTS; PEDIATRICS; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty / Harran Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
1304-9623
- Publication type
Article