Table 1 Main causes of hepatic granulomas
From: Common symptoms for a rare disease in a girl with sarcoidosis: a case report
Infectious disease (i.e. HBV, HCV, CMV, Syphilis, Mycobacteria, Bartonella, Brucella, fungal, parasitic) | |
Drugs (i.e sulfa drugs, allopurinol, isoniazid, chlorpropamide, quinidine and phenylbutazone) | |
Malignancies (i.e Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, metastasis) | |
Autoimmune (i.e SLE, polyarteritis nodosa, primary biliary cirrhosis, sclerosing cholangitis, bowel inflammatory disease) | |
Chronic granulomatous disease of childhood | |
Sarcoidosis | |
Foreign body (e.g. talc) | |
Lipogranuloma | |
Post-operative (i.e. after jejunoileal bypass) | |
Idiopathic |