Table 1.

Main causes of hepatic granulomas

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