Usefulness of immunoperoxidase technique in a case of amoebic liver abscess.
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Fatal case of amoebic liver abscess in a child.
We reported a case of amoebic liver abscess (ALA) in a 6-year-old Malaysian boy who presented with fever, lethargy, diarrhoea and right hypochondriac pain. On admission he was diagnosed with perforated acute appendicitis and a laparotomy was done. After surgery he developed acute respiratory distress. Ultrasonography, chest X-Ray and CT scan revealed two ALAs in the posterior segment of right l...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1882-7233,0387-1193
DOI: 10.5795/jjscc.30.1214