[Liver needle biopsy in evolutive tuberculosis of adult Africans. Report on 142 cases (author's transl)].

Liver needle-biopsy has been routinely performed in 142 Africans, above 10 years, and affected by tuberculosis with various localizations. It gave evidence of specific tuberculous lesions in more than 28,8 p. 100 of the cases and isolated non specific lesions in 40,8 p. 100, the liver parenchyme being normal in 33 p. 100 of the cases. These data are not much different from those obtained in Europe and Senegal in similar conditions of study. This extension of the tuberculous infection has two origins: the much most frequent is relevant to a secundary localization, the other includes the very rare primitive and autonomous forms.