The liver Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of Colorectal Cancer With Synchro- nous Isolated Hepatic Tuberculosis

mits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor, Tuberculosis is a global problem. According to the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion people are currently infected with tuberculosis bacilli and 1.7 million deaths attributed to TB in 2006 (1). TB usually oc-curs in lung and other form of it like primary abdominal TB is not uncommon and 6-38 % of patients with active pulmonary TB have abdominal TB (2). Hepatic tubercu-losis is usually associated with military tuberculosis or active pulmonary and isolated liver tuberculosis (ILT) is a rare type of TB (3, 4). Hereby we report a case of iso-lated hepatic tuberculosis. A 54 year old Iranian man has suffered from gastrointestinal symptoms, changes in bowel habits and rectal bleeding and abdominal pain fo