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Sonographic findings in brucellar hepatic abscess

✍ Scribed by Angel Cosme; Jesús Barrio; Evelia Ojeda; Jesús Ortega; Angel Tejada

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
132 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0091-2751

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✦ Synopsis

Brucellar hepatic abscesses are rare; to our knowledge, only 41 cases have been described in the literature. We report the case of a 29-year-old Spanish woman who was hospitalized because of fever, weakness, and weight loss. Abdominal sonography showed a hypoechoic lesion with central calcification. Brucella spp. were not isolated from an aspirate of the liver or blood cultures. The diagnosis was based on the association of characteristic sonographic features (central calcification and peripheral necrotic areas) and positive Brucella agglutination tests. The patient improved rapidly with antibiotic treatment.

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