Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of the liver is relatively rare. Due to the lack of specific symptoms and signs, clinical misdiagnosis and mistreatment rates are high. Most hepatic tuberculosis is a part of systemic miliary tuberculosis, called secondary hepatic tuberculosis. Patients mainly present with clinical manifestations caused by tuberculosis such as extrahepatic lung, intestine, etc. Generally, no clinical symptoms of liver disease appear, and intrahepatic tuberculosis is treated with antituberculosis It can be cured along with it, and it is difficult to make a diagnosis of liver tuberculosis clinically. Primary hepatic tuberculosis refers to tuberculosis that affects the liver and becomes the cause of all its clinical manifestations, or when hepatic tuberculosis occurs, tuberculosis lesions in other parts have healed or are very concealed and undiscovered. The liver is the only organ where tuberculosis is found. At this time, the patient may have liver disease such as hepatomegaly, pain and tenderness in the liver area, jaundice and other systemic symptoms that are common in tuberculosis, such as fever, chills, night sweats, fatigue, wasting, nausea, vomiting, bloating, diarrhea .

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