[Hepatic brucelloma: diagnosis and treatment].
Liver involvement due to brucellosis can occur during the acute or the chronic phase of the disease. The marked tendency toward circumscription can give rise to hepatic pseudotumoral lesions with a calcified granulomatous appearance, called brucellomas. Surgery is the only correct treatment, including Brucella PCR in the central calcified lesion, because serological studies are often inconclusive.
Menéndez
Pablo
P
Servicio de Cirugía General y de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, España. pablomensan@hotmail.com
Villarejo
Pedro
P
Cubo
Teófilo
T
Padilla
David
D
Gambí
Daniel
D
Menéndez
José María
JM
Martín
Jesús
J
D000328:Adult; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male