chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by inability of phagocytes to generate oxygen radicals needed for intracellular killing of phagocytic microorganisms. we report a 2.5-year-old iranian female with multiple liver abscesses. she was admitted in surgical ward because of abdominal pain and fever for one month duration that had no response to conventional...

conclusions tuberculosis is still a diagnostic challenge, especially when the presentation is atypical and extra-pulmonary. case presentation a 68-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with fever. he had splenomegaly, ascites and right-sided psoas abscess. chest x-ray was normal. although the vertebral column was intact, he had asymptomatic sacroiliitis. bony changes of the right sacroilia...

background percutaneous catheter drainage (pcd) and percutaneous needle aspiration (pna) have become the primary options for treating hepatic abscesses. thus far, various studies have examined the clinical data and computed tomography (ct) features for predicting pcd outcomes. objectives the goal was to compare ct features between hepatic abscesses classified based on strain and quantitative ou...

Clinical course, diagnosis and therapy of hepatic abscesses have been changed for several decades according to development of imaging modalities, antibiotics and treatment technique. Although, recently, the incidence of amebic hepatic abscess has been decreasing in developed countries, pyogenic hepatic abscesses still often occur. While hepatic abscesses may present with various imaging finding...

A case of hepatic abscess and subsequent septicemia caused by Clostridium bifermentans is described. The abscess manifested itself on the third day after blunt trauma to the torso. The patient had nausea, vomiting, fever, evidence of hepatic dysfunction, and subphrenic gas. This case illustrates the association of hepatic abscess and blunt trauma to the torso.

We report a case of a 59-year-old man admitted for acute myocardial infarction. He subsequently spiked a high-grade fever on the second day after percutaneous coronary intervention. Computed tomography imaging of the abdomen revealed a hepatic abscess secondary to gastrointestinal perforation by a fish bone. Medical therapy with antibiotics was preferred over surgical drainage of the hepatic ab...

Solid organizing hepatic abscess is a rare form of focal infection, which needs differentiation from benign and malignant solid masses. We report a case of a 30-year-old man with a solid organizing hepatic abscess, diagnosed by imaging and ex juvantibus criteria. CT and MRI findings are presented and role of DWI is outlined. Noninvasive diagnosis of a solid organizing hepatic abscess is possibl...

A case of solitary hepatic abscess in an apparently normal 5-year old infant is described. The symptoms in this patient were generally nonspecific and the child were erroneously operated with a presumptive diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Subsequently, because of persistence of isolated abdominal signs, abdominal ultrasonography were performed, and an abscess of the right hepatic lobe was evide...

Hepatic abscess due to perforation of the gastrointestinal tract caused by ingested foreign bodies is uncommon. Pre-operative diagnosis is difficult as patients are often unaware of the foreign body ingestion and symptoms and imagiology are usually non-specific. The authors report a case of 62-year-old woman who was admitted with fever and abdominal pain. Further investigation revealed hepatic ...