Chronic hepatic brucellosis

Medicine Service of the Hospital Condes de Castro Guimarães, Cascais Received for publication on the 18 November 97 Abstract The hepatic pseudotumoural localization of brucellosis is rare: only 29 cases have been described in the literature. The authors present a case of chronic hepatic pseudotumoural brucellosis, in a patient who underwent a partial hepatectomy, 14 years earlier, prior to this presentation, for a brucellosis abscess. The diagnosis was established by clinical history and positive serology for Brucellosis. The organism was not isolated microbiologically. After surgery and specific antibiotic therapy the patient became asymptomatic.