TY - JOUR ID - 240969 TI - Tuberculous Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: a Case Report JO - TANAFFOS (Respiration) JA - RSPR LA - en SN - 1735-0344 AU - Shokouhi, Shervin AU - Toolabi, Karamollah AU - Tehrani, Shabnam AU - Hemmatian, Marjan AD - Department of Infectious Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 49 EP - 51 KW - Tubercular liver abscess KW - Hepatic tuberculosis KW - Immunocompetent DO - N2 - ntroduction: 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 UR - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_240969.html L1 - https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_240969_bf918c147e055e90cdcfbd51638256c0.pdf ER -