[Extrapulmonary mycobacterial infection with multiple cold abscesses]

Ann Pathol. 1995;15(2):127-30.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report one case of extrapulmonary mycobacterial infection, in the absence of HIV infection, singular by a clinical presentation simulating a tumor, associating a bulky intrahepatic mass, an abscess of the psoas, multiple intracerebral lesions, and an obstructive intracardiac mass of the right ventricle, which required a surgical resection. We comment the type of the mycobacterium involved and the hepatic and cardiac localisations, since macronodular hepatic abscesses are rare, and cardiac abcesses, exceptional.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • HIV Seronegativity
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium Infections / complications
  • Mycobacterium Infections / pathology*
  • Psoas Abscess / microbiology
  • Psoas Abscess / pathology*