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Abstract
A 35 year old man presented with fever, weight loss and adenopathy. The clinical presentation,
laboratory studies, liver scan and laparotomy all suggested metastatic carcinoma.
Bacteriologic and pathologic studies established a diagnosis of macronodular tuberculosis
isolated to the liver. Response to antituberculous drug therapy was rapid. Review
of the literature revealed this case to be a rare example of tuberculous pseudotumors
of the liver.
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Accepted:
January 23,
1976
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© 1976 Published by Elsevier Inc.