Literature DB >> 11702293

Amebic liver abscesses masquerading as pyemic abscesses.

S Nattakom1, P Serrato, T Bright, A Anaya, S Stubbers, A Verghese.   

Abstract

We describe a 50-year-old man who presented with multiple liver abscesses that suggested biliary sepsis or portal pyemia. A wet preparation of a sample of aspirate showed the presence of amebic trophozoites, and subsequent serological testing for amebae was strongly reactive.

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Year:  2001        PMID： 11702293     DOI： 10.1086/338022

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Clin Infect Dis        ISSN： 1058-4838            Impact factor:   9.079


  3 in total

1.  Unusual multiple large abscesses of the liver: interest of the radiological features and the real-time PCR to distinguish between bacterial and amebic etiologies.

Authors:  Guillaume Desoubeaux; Hélène Chaussade; Marc Thellier; Sophie Poussing; Frédéric Bastides; Eric Bailly; Philippe Lanotte; Daniel Alison; Laurent Brunereau; Louis Bernard; Jacques Chandenier
Journal:  Pathog Glob Health       Date:  2013-12-19       Impact factor: 2.894

2.  Spontaneous fistulisation and drainage of a pyogenic liver abscess into the stomach in an adult patient with sickle cell disease.

Authors:  Shariful Islam; Devin Hosein; Vinoo Bheem; Patrick Harnarayan
Journal:  BMJ Case Rep       Date:  2016-03-14

Review 3.  Entamoeba Histolytica: Updates in Clinical Manifestation, Pathogenesis, and Vaccine Development.

Authors:  Micaella Kantor; Anarella Abrantes; Andrea Estevez; Alan Schiller; Jose Torrent; Jose Gascon; Robert Hernandez; Christopher Ochner
Journal:  Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol       Date:  2018-12-02
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