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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 31-33 |
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A rare case of hepatic tuberculoma in an immunocompetent patient
Hema Murugesan, Hemalatha Padmanathan, Rithika Selvam, Sugumar Kumaran, Vinod Kumar Viswanathan
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Hema Murugesan
Senior Resident, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/japt.japt_7_22
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Hepatic tuberculoma is an uncommon form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). It is usually a part of disseminated disease such as miliary TB. Localized TB of the liver in the form of macronodular tuberculoma or an abscess is rare.[1] Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of tuberculous infection in all patients who have nonresolving liver abscesses, particularly in regions with high prevalence. Presented here is a case of an immunocompetent patient with tuberculoma of the liver, which was diagnosed by percutaneous ultrasonography-guided liver biopsy.
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