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Scrotal absceso following an appendicitis

open access: yesActa Pediátrica de México, 2014
Appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen in children; approximately one third of all cases present with appendiceal perforation at the time of surgery. Some of postoperative complications in this condition are abscesses.
León Hernández Angélica,   +2 more
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A case of primary psoas abscess presenting as buttock abscess

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 2009
Buttock abscess is a rare clinical manifestation from unusual extrapelvic extension of psoas abscess. A 48-year-old woman presented with painful swelling of the buttock with a sense of local heat.
Jae Ho Yoo   +3 more
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Direct acute respiratory distress syndrome after gastric perforation caused by an intragastric balloon: a case report

open access: yesBMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening condition and the identification of the underlying direct (pulmonary) or indirect (non-pulmonary) cause is mandatory for a successful treatment.
Nils Theuerkauf   +5 more
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The Effectiveness of CT Enterography in the Radiological Evaluation of Crohn’s Disease

open access: yesBagcilar Medical Bulletin, 2021
Objective:The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of computed tomography enterography (CTE) in demonstrating luminal and extraluminal pathologies in patients diagnosed with Crohn’s disease (CD).Method:In 20 symptomatic patients ...
Nevzat Herdem, Deniz Esin Tekcan Şanlı
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Intra-abdominal abscess from dropped gallstone: A case report

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports, 2023
Dropped gallstones are a common complication during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The formation of an abdominal abscess related to the dropped gallstones is rare because the majority of these calculi do not cause complications.
Mohamed Abdellaoui, MD   +5 more
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A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia

open access: yesIDCases, 2017
Fusobacterium species are well described as the causative pathogen in Lemierre’s syndrome, a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the jugular vein. However, they are less recognized for a unique variant of Lemierre’s syndrome presenting with invasive ...
Elham Rahmati   +4 more
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Klebsiella invasive liver abscess syndrome presenting with a central nervous system manifestation secondary to latent cholecystitis: a case report

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Brain abscess is a life-threatening event. Moreover, when Klebsiella pneumoniae is the cause, rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment are required. Klebsiella invasive liver abscess syndrome, a bloodstream metastatic infection of potentially
Osamu Kinoshita   +8 more
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Intraabdominal abscess: current concepts in radiologic evaluation [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Roentgenology, 1979
Forty patients with suspected abdominal abscess had computed tomography (CT) and plain film examinations; 15 also had ultrasound study. CT was found to be the most consistently accurate examination, both for the detection of abscess and evaluation of its extent. Ultrasound was positive in a high percentage of cases in which it was used.
M D, Halber   +6 more
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Tissue invasion by Entamoeba histolytica: evidence of genetic selection and/or DNA reorganization events in organ tropism. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Entamoeba histolytica infection may have various clinical manifestations. Nine out of ten E. histolytica infections remain asymptomatic, while the remainder become invasive and cause disease.
Ibne Karim M. Ali   +45 more
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A Rare Case of Secondary Bacterial Peritonitis from Clostridium perfringens in an Adult Patient with Noncirrhotic Ascites and a Krukenberg Tumor: Report of a Case

open access: yesCase Reports in Medicine, 2011
Secondary bacterial peritonitis, in comparison to spontaneous, presents with a surgically treatable intraabdominal source for infection such as a gastrointestinal perforation or abscess and is nearly always polymicrobial.
Scott R. Kelley, George M. Kerlakian
doaj   +1 more source

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