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Complication of Amebic Liver Abscess: Biliary Fistula [PDF]
Kosin Medical Journal, 2015 In amebic liver abscess, communication between liver abscess and intrahepatic bile ducts is an uncommon cause of bile leak. This condition can be treated surgically or endoscopically.
Han Wook Chung +4 more
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Liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report
BMC Surgery, 2020 Background Liver abscess due to gastrointestinal perforation by foreign bodies is rare. Furthermore, there are few case reports of liver abscess via the portal vein caused by perforation of the lower gastrointestinal tract by a foreign body.
Seiji Natsuki +5 more
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Therapy of Liver Abscesses [PDF]
Visceral Medicine, 2014 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Liver abscess (LA) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening disease with significant morbidity and mortality. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> This review comprehensively describes epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of LA, with a strong focus on antimicrobial ...
Lübbert, Christoph +2 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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Tissue invasion by Entamoeba histolytica: evidence of genetic selection and/or DNA reorganization events in organ tropism. [PDF]
, 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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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 BackgroundInvasive Klebsiella-associated liver abscesses can progress rapidly and cause severe metastatic infections such as meningitis and hydrocephalus, which are associated with high morbidity and mortality. In patients with large multiloculated liver
Hiroyuki Nojima +9 more
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Occult Colon Cancer in a Patient with Diabetes and Recurrent Klebsiella Pneumoniae Liver Abscess
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009 Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is a well-known leading cause of liver abscess in patients with diabetes, but recurrent Kp liver abscess in such patients within a period of time is seldom seen.
Wen-Hung Hsu +5 more
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Diabetes and obesity and risk of pyogenic liver abscess
Scientific Reports, 2023 Few literatures discussed the relationship of glycemic control and body mass index (BMI) with the risk of pyogenic liver abscess. We conducted a population-based cohort study using participants of a community-based health screening program in Taiwan from
Jiun-Ling Wang +3 more
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Oman Medical Journal, 2014 Objective: To describe the etiology, clinical presentation, management and outcome of liver abscess in adult patients admitted at Hamad general hospital, Qatar.
Mushtak Talib Abbas +5 more
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An unusual cause of pyogenic liver abscess. The conundrum of broom splinter. Report of two cases
Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2022 Pyogenic liver abscess is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Very few cases of liver abscess due to foreign bodies have been reported. We report our experience in two patients who were successfully managed for liver abscess due to impaled broom ...
Olanrewaju Samuel Balogun +3 more
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