Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess
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Fish bone migration: an unusual cause of liver abscess.
Treating a pyogenic liver abscess is a therapeutic challenge when a patient presents with atypical symptoms. One of the rare causes of treatment failure of these abscesses is the unrecognised migration of a foreign body from the gastrointestinal tract. The authors describe a pyogenic liver abscess in a 45-year-old male who presented with a 10 day history of fever, and abdominal pain. A CT scan ...
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Figure 1. Top, An abdominal CT scan with contrast enhancement demonstrates a liver abscess at the lateral segment of the left hepatic lobe, with a linear fish bone (arrow) visible within the abscess. Bottom, A non–contrast-enhanced CT scan in oblique coronal reformation demonstrated that the fish bone was retained in the liver without any sequelae. prolonged courses of oral artesunate to our pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6900,2090-6919
DOI: 10.1155/2015/238342