We here present an interesting unusual case of upper abdominal pain. The patient was a 38-year-old man, who was admitted to our hospital complaining of right upper quadrant pain caused by a toothpick that perforated the anterior gastric wall and penetrated segment I of the liver. After endoscopic removal and an initially uneventful course, computed tomography revealed a perigastric abscess that...

A 61-year-old man presented via the emergency department with a few days history of abdominal and colic occlusion symptoms. He presented signs of sepsis, midline lumbar spine tenderness and reduced hip flexion. Computer tomography of the abdomen and pelvis showed a presacral collection contiguous with the posterior part of the colo-rectal anastomosis, and MRI lumbar spine revealed abscess invat...

Even though Gemella morbillorum infection (GMI) is rare in humans, it may nevertheless, cause endocarditis, meningitis, brain abscess, pleural empyema, nephritis, mediastinitis, and--occasionally--liver abscess. We are describing the case of a 64-years-old Caucasian male admitted with fever and abdominal pain. Laboratory parameters revealed inflammation signs, and instrumental examinations show...

due to a gastric diverticulum Gastric diverticula are uncommon, usually asymptomatic, and typically present as a solitary diverticulum found incidentally during endoscopy [1,2]. Occasionally, gastric diverticula cause symptoms, including pain, bloating, epigastric fullness, bleeding, and perforation. Rarely, they are associated with abscess formation [2–4]. We present a case of a gastric divert...

A 50-year-old man was referred to the outpatient colonoscopy clinic after a positive fecal occult blood test during screening for colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy, which was performed with the patient sedated, revealed a 12-mm tumor covered by normal, smooth mucosa at the site of the appendicular orifice. A biopsy was taken, but this led to an immediate purulent discharge occurring from the lesio...

INTRODUCTION We report a rare case of delayed abdominal wall abscess after abdominoperineal resection (APR) for rectal cancer. CASE DESCRIPTION A 63-year-old woman was diagnosed with rectal cancer and received chemo-radiotherapy, followed by APR. One year after surgery, the patient complained of pain and skin redness in the lower abdomen. A low-density mass lesion with 5.9-cm diameter was fou...

BACKGROUND Pediatric pyogenic liver abscess is uncommon. This study aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics, radiologic features, pathogens, duration of hospitalization, and management of pediatric pyogenic liver abscess. METHODS Pediatric patients with pyogenic liver abscess admitted to the China Medical University Hospital from 1995 to 2011 were reviewed. Their clinical characteri...

BACKGROUND Amebic liver abscess is a tropical disease with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Given the often nonspecific nature of the complaints related to amebic abscess, a retrospective review of patients with confirmed disease to recognize the most common patterns of presentation is useful. Here, we study the clinical presentations of 62 Thai patients with amebic liver abscess. We ...

Primary abdominal wall abscess is extremely rare and difficult to diagnose because abscesses usually occur secondary malignant tumors or inflammatory diseases. We experienced a case of an 80-year-old man with asynchronous primary recurrence. Both were successfully treated surgical drainage. A patient without any history cancer trauma presented our department right upper pain. His laboratory dat...

Background: Retained appendicolith related abscess formation is rare and carries challenging management options. We describe a unique case of a patient who presented with right upper quadrant pain tenderness that is clinically mimicking acute cholecystitis which turned out to be a perihepatic abscess caused by a dropped migrated appendicolith two and half years following a laparoscopic appendec...