Amoebiasis with multiple colonic perforations and ruptured liver abscess - a case report.

Amoebiasis is endemic in Malaysia with a relatively higher incidence among Indians living in the rural areas. Patients are commonly admitted to the medical wards for amoebic dysentery or to the surgical wards for liver abscess. Rarely patients are admitted for perforation of amoebic colitis and sometimes with liver abscess which has ruptured into the peritoneal cavity, I but hitherto no patient has been admitted for both complications. A patient with both complications is reported because of the difficulty in diagnosis and the problems in management.