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Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess as a Complication of Appendicitis: A Case Report [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2026.
Pyogenic liver abscess management. ABSTRACT Pyogenic liver abscess is a rare and under‐recognized complication of gangrenous or perforated appendicitis in children. Management typically requires a combination of antibiotic therapy and abscess drainage. Although uncommon in the pediatric population, pyogenic liver abscess is more frequently observed in ...
Mohammad AshrafAzimi, Abbas Abdollahi, Mohammad karimi, Homa Jajarmi, Ali Mehri   +4 more
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Amebic liver abscess rupture into inferior vena cava with pulmonary thrombo embolism: a case report [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background Vascular complications such as hepatic vein and inferior vena cava thrombus, phlebitis, and extrahepatic biliary obstruction are rare in amebic liver abscesses.
Sripooja Makthala, Lovenish Bains, Pawan Lal, Kranthi Naik Bhukya   +3 more
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Blastocystis in a Liver Abscess: An Unusual Extraintestinal Location [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Blastocystis is a common anaerobic protist of uncertain pathogenicity that inhabits the human intestine. Rare cases reported in the literature suggest possible extraintestinal dissemination by unclear mechanisms. We followed a 43‐year‐old Peruvian woman presenting with low‐grade fever and gastrointestinal symptoms who was diagnosed with a liver abscess
Daniel Rodríguez-Zúñiga, Belén Rivaya, María Vanessa López-Peláez, Bruno Antunes-Parente, Begoña Bailo, Sergio Sánchez, David Carmena, Satoshi Miyahara   +7 more
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Three Autochthonous Cases of Amoebic Liver Abscess Clustered in a Small Village of Tuscany (Central Italy), a Non-Endemic Area [PDF]

Pathogens
Amebiasis is a rare condition in industrialised countries but is epidemiologically growing. Clinical manifestations may range from asymptomatic to invasive disease.
Giuseppantonio Maisetta, Sara Moneta, Benedetta Tuvo, Cesira Giordano, Paola Alessandra Petrocelli, Giovanni Tincani, Daniela Campani, Davide Ghinolfi, Marco Falcone, Fabrizio Bruschi, Antonella Lupetti   +10 more
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Primary amebic pulmonary abscess with concurrent pulmonary adenocarcinoma: A rare presentation

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2023
Amebic lung abscess without involving another system like liver or colon is immensely uncommon. We want to report a case of a 72-year-old woman who presented in emergency with complaints of shortness of breath, loss of weight, right-side chest pain, and ...
Sheetal Verma, Prem Parkash Gupta, Sandeep Nain, Pankaj Kumar Singh   +3 more
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Hepatogastric fistula: A rare complication of liver abscess

Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2015
Rupture of amebic liver abscess into stomach is a rare complication. We report a case of a young male presenting with haematemesis due to a rupture of left lobe amebic liver abscess into stomach.
Shrihari Anikhindi, Piyush Ranjan, Munish Sachdeva, Mandhir Kumar   +3 more
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Ruptured Amebic Liver Abscess [PDF]

HPB Surgery, 1990
We treated two patients with a ruptured amebic liver abscess. The diagnosis was made at a relatively early stage and treatment was successful for one patient, but an accurate diagnosis of liver abscess was not made and invasive extraintestinal amebiasis led to multiple organ failure and to death for the other. Neither patient had been outside of Japan,
Kawano, Toyokazu, Ichiyoshi, Yuji, Nagasaki, Susumu, Toda, Tomohiro, Minamisono, Yoshikazu, Okazaki, Yukinori, Kanematsu, Takashi, Sugimachi, Keizo   +7 more
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Hepatic Abscess in a Returning Traveler with Crohn’s Disease: Differentiating Amebic from Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Case Reports in Medicine, 2018
Liver abscess is a rare but serious complication of Crohn’s disease. Patients with Crohn’s disease are at risk for pyogenic liver abscesses due to immunosuppressive therapy, fistulous disease, and intraabdominal abscesses.
Daria Gaut, Hannah Shull, Anthony Bejjani, Daniel Kahn   +3 more
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Natural killer T cells activated by a lipopeptidophosphoglycan from Entamoeba histolytica are critically important to control amebic liver abscess. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2009
The innate immune response is supposed to play an essential role in the control of amebic liver abscess (ALA), a severe form of invasive amoebiasis due to infection with the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica.
Hannelore Lotter, Nestor González-Roldán, Buko Lindner, Florian Winau, Armando Isibasi, Martha Moreno-Lafont, Artur J Ulmer, Otto Holst, Egbert Tannich, Thomas Jacobs   +9 more
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Diagnostic difficulty of liver lesion

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2016
Liver abscess is mostly either pyogenic or amebic. Fungal and mycobacterial liver abscesses are rare and mostly associated with immunosuppression. The occurrence of fungal liver abscess with hydatid cyst was never reported previously.
Jayabal Pandiaraja
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