[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver. Unusual course of an unrecognized abscess? Apropos of a case].

The authors report the case of an hepatic tumor occurring in a 46 years old man admitted for a long-way fever. After hepatectomy, the microscopic examination showed fibro-xantho-granulomatous aspects with micro-abscess, tuberculoid nodules and a portal phlebitis. These lesions have been interpreted as an "inflammatory pseudotumor". The tumor had microscopic likenesses with inflammatory pseudotumors of the lung of which an infectious origin is only suggested. In the literature, the authors found only two cases of inflammatory pseudo-tumor of the liver, in which micro-abscess are not mentioned. The feature helps the authors to find some similarities between their tumor and a particular type of granulomatous abscess of the liver.