Narechania Shraddha, Duran Marc, Karivedu Vidhya, Gopalakrishna K V
Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, OH 44111, USA.
Internal Medicine Residency, Atlanta Medical Center, 303 Parkway Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, USA.
Case Rep Pathol. 2015;2015:745461. doi: 10.1155/2015/745461. Epub 2015 Jan 28.
The common histopathologic hepatic manifestations in patients infected with Salmonella include cloudy swelling and balloon degeneration with vacuolation of the hepatocytes and steatosis. Hepatic granulomas are a very rare finding, so far reported in very few cases. We report a 64-year-old patient with Salmonella enteritis who was found to have multiple 1.4 to 1.6 cm hypoechoic liver masses on ultrasound of the abdomen which on biopsy revealed hepatic granulomas. This case highlights the importance of keeping the differential diagnosis of Salmonella typhi (S. typhi) in mind in a patient with hepatic granulomas.
感染沙门氏菌患者常见的肝脏组织病理学表现包括肝细胞浊肿、气球样变性伴空泡形成以及脂肪变性。肝肉芽肿是一种非常罕见的表现,迄今为止仅在极少数病例中报道过。我们报告一例64岁的肠炎沙门氏菌感染患者,腹部超声检查发现肝脏有多个1.4至1.6厘米的低回声肿块,活检显示为肝肉芽肿。该病例突出了在患有肝肉芽肿的患者中考虑伤寒沙门氏菌鉴别诊断的重要性。