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A case of ruptured liver abscess manifesting with intestinal obstruction

Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2014
Liver abscess manifests with various clinical features. Features include vague abdominal pain, bowel disturbances, jaundice, and rarely abdominal swelling. The sheer plethora of the manifestations can confuse an unwary surgeon.
P Sudarshan, Arunabha Sinha, Harinatha Sreekar, B Arunchandra   +3 more
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Maximal diameter of liver abscess independently predicts prolonged hospitalization and poor prognosis in patients with pyogenic liver abscess

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background/aims This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with prolonged hospital stay and in-hospital mortality in patients with pyogenic liver abscess.
Chang Hun Lee, Hoon Gil Jo, Eun Young Cho, Jae Sun Song, Gum Mo Jung, Yong Keun Cho, Seung Young Seo, Seong Hun Kim, Sang Wook Kim, Seung Ok Lee, Soo Teik Lee, In Hee Kim   +11 more
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Pyogenic Liver Abscess with Prevotella Species and Fusobacterium necrophorum as Causative Pathogens in an Immunocompetent Patient

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
Pyogenic liver abscess of odontogenic origin in an immunocompetent patient is extremely rare. We report an immunocompetent 25-year-old male hepatitis B carrier with severe dental disease that led to the development of liver abscess.
Wei-Yi Lei, Wen-Hsiung Chang, Shou-Chuan Shih, Chung-Ji Liu, Chih-Hsin Shih   +4 more
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[Liver abscess].

La Revue de medecine interne, 2016
Liver abscess is a rare and severe infection. Incidence increases because of aging of population, advances in liver and biliary surgery including liver transplantation, and immunodeficiency factors. Diagnosis depends mainly on imaging and needle aspiration for microbiological identification.
Rossi G., Lafont E., Gasperini, Dokmak S., Ronot M., Rossi B., Zarrouk V., Fantin B., Lefort A.   +8 more
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Liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation of stomach wall treated by laparoscopic surgery: a case report

Surgical Case Reports, 2019
Background Formation of a liver abscess due to gastrointestinal perforation by a foreign body is rare. In addition, there are few case reports on laparoscopic surgical treatment of a liver abscess caused by perforation of the gastrointestinal tract by a ...
Tomoaki Bekki, Nobuaki Fujikuni, Kazuaki Tanabe, Hironobu Amano, Toshio Noriyuki, Masahiro Nakahara   +5 more
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Liver Abscess – A scourge of the Tropics [PDF]

International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2016
Introduction: Liver abscess defined as a collection of pus within the liver parenchyma continues to remain a scourge for the population in our limited resource area. Amoebic and pyogenic etiologies predominate.
Sharad Seth, Seema Seth
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Multiple Amoebic Liver Abscesses: A Case Report [PDF]

International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2015
Amoebic liver abscess is common in tropical country, caused by a protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. It is the most common extra intestinal manifestation caused by invasion of amoeba. It is presented as fever, right hypochondria pain with tenderness and
Harish Kumar, Veer Bahadur Singh, Jatin Agrawa, Rajesh Kumar   +3 more
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Health‐related quality of life following total minimally invasive, hybrid minimally invasive or open oesophagectomy: a population‐based cohort study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
All patients operated for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to April 2018 were identified, and 246 patients were recruited to this population‐based nationwide Swedish study. The results show that longitudinal health‐related quality of life after minimally invasive oesophagectomy was similar to that of the open surgical approach.
F. Klevebro, J. H. Kauppila, S. Markar, A. Johar, P. Lagergren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology and mortality of liver abscess in end-stage renal disease dialysis patients: Taiwan national cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Background and objectivesTo determine the incidence rates and mortality of liver abscess in ESRD patients on dialysis.Design setting participants & measurementsUsing Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, we collected data from all ESRD ...
Chon-Seng Hong, Kun-Ming Chung, Po-Chang Huang, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chun-Ming Yang, Chin-Chen Chu, Chung-Ching Chio, Fu-Lin Chang, Chih-Chiang Chien   +8 more
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A complex presentation of an uncommon disease: Gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess complicated by septic pulmonary emboli and muscle abscesses, a case report and review of the literature

IDCases, 2023
Background: Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is the most common type of visceral abscess. Its variable clinical presentation depends on patient demography, underlying conditions, causative pathogens as well as the size of the abscess.
Aseel H. Alzibdeh, Ans A. Alamami, Mohammad Adam, Muna Almaslamani, Hamad Abdel Hadi   +4 more
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