[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.
Servicio de Cirugía General y de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, España. pablomensan@hotmail.com
Pablo
P
Menéndez
Pedro
P
Villarejo
Teófilo
T
Cubo
David
D
Padilla
Daniel
D
Gambí
José María
JM
Menéndez
Jesús
J
Martín
D000328:Adult; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male