D Cunnigham, P R Mills, E M Quigley, R S Patrick, G Watkinson, J F MacKenzie, R I Russell
A survey of all patients in whom liver biopsy showed epithelioid granulomas was undertaken at two major teaching hospitals in Glasgow for the period 1970-1979. Seventy-seven patients with hepatic granulomas were studied retrospectively. In 53 cases (69 per cent) a clear-cut clinical diagnosis was established, which included sarcoidosis (eight cases), tuberculosis (eight), extrahepatic biliary obstruction (seven), primary liver diseases (11), neoplasm (six), bacterial infection (five) and miscellaneous (eight)...
1982: Quarterly Journal of Medicine