Medical treatment of fish bone-related liver abscess.

نویسندگان

  • Chung-Yi Yang
  • Jia-Horng Kao
  • Kao-Lang Liu
  • Shyh-Jye Chen
چکیده

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 patient’s neurological syndrome.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

دوره 41 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005