Kilicaslan Buket, Cengiz Nurcan, Pourbagher Mir Ali, Cemil Tuba
Department of Pediatrics, Medicine Faculty, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Eur J Pediatr. 2008 Jun;167(6):699-700. doi: 10.1007/s00431-007-0554-4. Epub 2007 Jul 6.
Hepatic abscess caused by brucellosis is extremely rare in children. We report the case of a 5-year-old girl in whom an abscess of the liver developed during an episode of acute brucellosis. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case of hepatic abscess caused by brucellosis in a child.
布鲁氏菌病引起的肝脓肿在儿童中极为罕见。我们报告了一名5岁女孩的病例,她在急性布鲁氏菌病发作期间出现了肝脓肿。据我们所知,这是第二例报告的儿童布鲁氏菌病引起的肝脓肿病例。