Amebic Abscess of the Liver Drained Through the Common Duct

Amoebic liver abscess draining into the bile ducts

“…Many workers (Craig, 1934;Ude, 1928;Bowers and Barnes, 1960;Tillman and Galambos, 1960) state that the rupture of an amoebic hepatic abscess into the bile ducts is very uncommon, and, according to Boquien (Boquien and Lenne, 1962) spontaneous rupture is also rare. However, these two cases were found in the first 15 patients in whom amoebic abscess was visualized with contrast medium under fluoroscopic control, so that it cannot be rare.…”

“…According to reports in the literature the spontaneous drainage of an amoebic abscess of the liver into the biliary tree is a very rare event (Bowers and Barnes, 1960;Boquien and Lenne, 1962;Craig, 1934), and it may account for the rapid and complete recovery in a few cases within a few hours of starting anti-amoebic therapy. In this paper we describe two such cases.…”