A Case of Hepatic Tuberculosis Secondary to Intestinal Tuberculosis

Choi, Ji Young; Kim, Ki Woo; Shin, Dong Jin; Mok, Cha Soo; Chang, Seok Il; Choi, Dae Sup; Kim, Young Jin

doi:1988.35.4.262

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 35(4); 1988 > Article

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1988;35(4):262-269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1988.35.4.262 Published online December 1, 1988.

A Case of Hepatic Tuberculosis Secondary to Intestinal Tuberculosis

Ji Young Choi¹, Ki Woo Kim¹, Dong Jin Shin¹, Cha Soo Mok¹, Seok Il Chang¹, Dae Sup Choi¹, Young Jin Kim²

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Sung-Ai General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Pathology, Sung-Ai General Hospital, Seoul, Korea

장결핵에 속발된 간결핵증 1예

최지영¹, 김기우¹, 신동진¹, 목차수¹, 장석일¹, 최대섭¹, 김영진²

Abstract

Involvement of the liver in patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been described only in a few cases for over 150 years Secondary tuberculosis of the liver occurs more often than primary one, but has rarely been reported because of its demonstrability by biopsy or laparotomy In Korea with high incidence of tuberculosis, few cases of hepatic tuberculosis has been reported but no case of hepatic tuberculosis secondary to intestinal tuberculosis was reported yet. Recently we had the opportunity to observe one case of hepatic tuberculosis secondary to intestinal tuberculosis, that was confirmed with the use of liver biopsy and recovered dramatically with antituberculous chemotherapy. So we reported this case with brief review of literatures.