Peri- and Intra-Hepatic Abscess

Hepatic Abscess

be considered as defending him. I have merely to deal with Surgeon-Captain Younge's article. Surgeon-Captain Younge starts with the assumption that all dysenteric hepatic abscesses must be due to micro-organisuas absorbed from the intestine, and that the post-viortern condition of the radicles of the portal veiu leading away from the ulcerated parts of the gut must be similar to that seen in th...

Hepatic Abscess

Hepatitis and Hepatic Abscess

little book. The author starts by explaining clearly and briefly his theory of " hepatic exhaustion," which he advanced some years ago in this journal. " In the tropics," he contends, " the liver is called upon to excrete a large amount of hydrocarbons which would in temperate climates pass off" by the lungs, while at the same time it has to rid the system of the products of excessive blood des...

Hepatic abscess and cystic fibrosis.

Extrapulmonary infection is rare in cystic fibrosis. We describe two adult patients with cystic fibrosis whose course was complicated by the development of liver abscesses. The possible aetiology of these abscesses is discussed and the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pyogenic hepatic abscess is briefly reviewed.

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