Open AccessIsolated liver tuberculosis
Author(s) -
R Karim,
M M Chowdhury,
Anisur Rahman Khan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bangabandhu sheikh mujib medical university journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2224-7750
pISSN - 2074-2908
DOI - 10.3329/bsmmuj.v7i1.29154
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , lesion , pathology , radiology
Isolated liver tuberculosis is still considered a rare condition and its atypical clinical presentation challenges the clinical acumen of the treating physician. There is difficulty in reaching the correct preoperative diagnosis of nodular hepatic tuberculosis that presents as a space-occupying lesion. It is usually unsuspected and confused with primary or metastatic carcinoma of the liver. In this report, we describe a rare case of isolated liver tuberculosis