Tropical liver abscess.

Tropical liver abscess.

Forty-one consecutive cases of liver abscesses seen at the National University Hospital, Singapore from 1988 to 1994 were reviewed. Twenty-seven cases (65%) were pyogenic, six (15%) amoebic, two (5%) tuberculous and six (15%) indeterminate. The predominance of pyogenic abscesses is in marked contrast to previous studies from the region a decade ago in which amoebic abscesses were the commonest ...

Etiology of Tropical Liver Abscess

Tropical Liver Abscess Affecting the Left Lobe

as is usually believed. The following cases which were under my treatment in rather a short period of time (about a year) are illustrative of the frequency of the condition. Rogers recorded that of the liver abscess cases in European hospitals, left lobe cases formed 11.9 per cent, while in the case of Indian patients in the Medical College Hospitals that incidence was 18.3 per cent. Chatterjee...

PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS: REVIEW OF 54 CASES

Background: Historically open surgical drainage has been the treatment of choice for pyogenic liver abscess. The records of 54 patients with pyogenic liver abscess were reviewed to determine whether earlier diagnosis with current imaging tests and definitive treatment with antibiotics and aspiration drainage was an effective alternative to surgery. Methods: The clinical features, laborator...

[Pyogenic liver abscess].

At the turn of the century, the mortality from liver abscess was 100%. Surgical drainage reduced the mortality to 50 to 75% by 1930. Antibiotics led to a further reduction but there was little change in the mortality during the next 25 years until recently when the adoption of special localization techniques promised a great improvement. In the nineteenth century a common cause of liver abscess...