Medknow Publications and Staff Society of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Abstract
A 38 years old female presented with pain in the epigastrium, jaundice
and fever since one and half month. The computerised tomographic scan
of the abdomen revealed a multiloculated abscess of the left lobe of
liver. The pus drained from the liver abscess at laparotomy showed
acid-fast bacilli on microscopy. A detailed search failed to identify
any other focus of tuberculous infection. The case has been reported
for the rarity of isolated hepatic tuberculous abscess and its
presentation with jaundice, a rare feature, and to highlight the
importance of microscopic or culture diagnosis in a suspected case of
pyaemic abscess