Hepatic abscesses can result from foreign body perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. Although uncommon, reported cases often involve solitary hepatic abscess with no obvious etiology. We describe the case of a 65-yearold female with multiple hepatic abscesses occurring secondary to chicken bone perforation of the sigmoid colon identified on colonoscopy. With prompt diagnosis, the patient w...

Primary hepatic tuberculosis (TB) is very rare in the UK, but the incidence may be rising. Three cases of primary hepatic TB in immunocompetent patients without evidence of pulmonary involvement are reported. The diagnosis was challenging as two patients had liver space-occupying lesions, and the third patient presented with liver abscess. All of them responded well to standard anti-tubercular ...

Hepatic abscesses can result from foreign body perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. Although uncommon, reported cases often involve solitary hepatic abscess with no obvious etiology. We describe the case of a 65-yearold female with multiple hepatic abscesses occurring secondary to chicken bone perforation of the sigmoid colon identified on colonoscopy. With prompt diagnosis, the patient w...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcmj.2015.11.001 1016-3190/Copyright © 2015, Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation. Published (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). 216 U/L). A standing chest radiograph showed an airefluid level in the right hepatic area (Fig. 1). Subsequent abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a gas-forming liver abscess (Fig. 2). Fundus examination sh...

BACKGROUND Hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a rare disease which often mimics a malignant tumor and is therefore often misdiagnosed and surgically resected. Recently, a concept of IgG4-related diseases (IgG4-RD) has been proposed that is becoming widely recognized and includes IgG4-related hepatic IPT. Corticosteroids are widely accepted as the standard treatment. CASE PRESENTATION A...

White cell count (26 10/L; reference interval [RI], 4.0e11.0 10/L) and C-reactive protein levels (199 mg/L; RI <5mg/L) were both elevated; liver function tests were deranged, with evidence of cholestasis. Liver ultrasonography revealed a 5.3 cm abscess in segment VII. A CT scan showed two abscesses: a 5.0 5.7 cm abscess in segments V/VIII and a 3.3 5.1 cm abscess in segment VII, with cholelithi...

Amcebic abscess of the liver when not properly treated tends to increase in size and often ruptures into the adjacent tissues, viz, lung, pleura, peritoneum, pericardium or abdominal wall, and less commonly into the stomach, duodenum or hepatic flexure. An effusion may occur into the pleural or peritoneal cavities as a result of direct spread of the inflammation from the advancing abscess. Absc...

Liver abscesses are very rare complications of ulcerative colitis, and furthermore, there has been only one case of splenic abscess in a patient with ulcerative colitis reported in the English literature. We recently encountered a patient with ulcerative colitis accompanied by both hepatic and splenic abscesses. The patient was treated with abscess drainage as well as sulfasalazine and antibiot...

Pyogenic liver abscess is a condition with considerable mortality. The common etiology of liver abscesses after chemotherapy is fungi, especially candida albicans, and gram-positive bacteria. However, little is known about gram-positive bacterial infection as the cause of pyogenic liver abscess. In this study we reviewed our experiences with the use of daptomycin for the treatment of gram-posit...

chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) represents a group of inherited disorders of phagocytic system, manifesting recurrent infections at different sites. the present study was accomplished in order to determine the gastrointestinal manifestations of cgd patients. fifty-seven patients (38 males and 19 females) with cgd, who had been referred to three immunodeficiency referral centers in iran, wer...