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Tuberculous liver abscess in an immunocompetent patient: a case report
Shervin Shokouhi1, Karamollah Toolabi2, Shabnam Tehrani1
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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.
