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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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Phase II trial of preoperative radiochemotherapy with concurrent bevacizumab, capecitabine and oxaliplatin in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Preoperative radiochemotherapy (RCT) with 5-FU or capecitabine is the standard of care for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Preoperative RCT achieves pathological complete response rates (pCR) of 10-15%.
Arnold, Dirk, Dellas, Kathrin, Dunst, Jürgen, Engel, Erik, Höhler, Thomas, Reese, Thomas, Richter, Michael, Rödel, Claus, Wagner, Wolfgang, Würschmidt, Florian   +9 more
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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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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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Eosinophilic Liver Abscess with Charcot-Leyden Crystals. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg
Sachdeva S, Dalal A, Goyal S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Abscess Formation of the Round Ligament of the Liver: Report of a Case [PDF]

, 2008
Abscess formation of the round ligament of the liver is very rare. We report a case of a 70-year-old female with abscess of the round ligament after an endoscopic papillotomy for choledocholithiasis.
Furutani, Shiro, Hirai, Ryuji, Ikeda, Eiji, Nakahara, Saki, Tada, Akihiro, Takagi, Shoji, Tsuji, Hisashi, Tsukuda, Kazunori, Watanabe, Keitaro   +8 more
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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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“Self-Referred” – A Physician’s experience of referred ear pain as a symptom of pyogenic liver abscess, a case report

Clinical Infection in Practice, 2021
Background: The presenting symptoms of liver abscess are typically non-specific, including pyrexia, right upper quadrant tenderness, nausea/vomiting and fatigue.
Michael Lockhart, Andrew Lockhart, Eoghan de Barra   +2 more
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