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Postmortem examination of a 28-year-old male revealed rare pseudotumoral hepatic tuberculosis with a concomitant pericardial abscess, illustrating the difficulty in diagnosing such hepatic masses.
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This case highlights the diagnostic challenge of pseudotumoral hepatic tuberculosis presenting with concomitant pericardial abscess.
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May prompt TB inclusion in hepatic mass differentials; leaves open validation of noninvasive diagnostics.
We report the postmortem findings in a 28-year-old immunocompetent male patient, a rare case of tuberculous liver abscesses with concomitant pericardial abscess in the absence of pleuropulmonary or splenic involvement, who continued to be a diagnostic dilemma. This case report illustrates the difficulty in reaching the correct diagnosis in case of hepatic masses, which are most often confused with carcinoma of the liver, primary or metastatic and, hence, have been aptly referred to as pseudotumoral hepatic tuberculosis in the past.
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Mutreja et al. (2010) conducted a case report in Pseudotumoral hepatic tuberculosis with pericardial abscess (n=1). Postmortem examination of a 28-year-old male revealed rare pseudotumoral hepatic tuberculosis with a concomitant pericardial abscess, illustrating the difficulty in diagnosing such hepatic masses.
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