[Pseudotumorous liver tuberculosis with multiple organ abscesses. A contribution to the differential diagnosis of liver abscess].

In a patient hospitalized with the diagnosis "fever of unclear etiology", a large liver abscess with multiple organ abscesses (soft tissues of the throat, spleen) was found. The bacteriological investigation of the liver abscess punctation material and the histological investigation of material from a throat abscess did not lead to a diagnosis. The causative organism was only detected by a specific investigation for M. tuberculosis (bacteriological, ELISA). Apart from one exception, there has been no reference to the possible causation of large liver abscesses by M. tuberculosis in the review literature in this country and abroad. In the case described, the tuberculous liver abscess was caused to regress by pharmacotherapy.