Diagnostic problems of pyogenic hepatic abscess

Berke, Joseph H.; C, Pecora

doi:10.1016/0002-9610(66)90040-7

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“…The preference of solitary abscesses for the right lobe of the liver is well documented. Rothenburg and Linder (1934) and Berke and Pecora (1966) found that all the solitary abscesses were so situated. McFadzean et al (1953) reported 13 of a series of 11 abscesses to be in the right lobe.…”

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Pyogenic liver abscess.

Bütler¹,

McCarthy²

1969

Gut

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Pyogenic liver abscess.

Bütler¹,

McCarthy²

1969

Gut

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Abscesses of the Liver: Surgical Considerations

Altemeier¹,

Schowengerdt²,

Whiteley³

1970

Arch Surg

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Anaerobic liver abscess and intrahepatic metastases.A case report and review of the literature

Trump

Fahnestock

Cloutier

et al. 1978

Cancer

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A patient is described in whom the first recurrence of a cloacogenic carcinoma of the rectum was an intrahepatic metastasis associated with an hepatic abscess caused by the anaerobic bacterium Peptococcus prevotii. Three previously reported cases of infection associated with hepatic tumor nodules have been found in which bacteriologic data were provided, and in all three cases anaerobic bacteria were the primary or only infecting organisms. Experimental data exist which document the ability of certain anaerobic bacteria to grow selectively in tumor nodules, but not in the normal tissues of a tumor-bearing host. Since 23% of patients with liver metastases have fever and offer a clinical picture compatible with infection, occult anaerobic infection associated with liver metastases may be more common than previously recognized.Cancer 41:682-686, 1978. HE CLINICAL AND BACTERIOLOGIC PICTURE OFT pyogenic abscess of the liver has been well defined. 10719*33 Recent reviews emphasize the importance of anaerobic bacteria in the etiology of hepatic suppuration. 14, 34 In the majority of patients with hepatic abscess, the illness begins in an extrahepatic focus of infection with subsequent spread to the liver by way of the portal or systemic circulation or the biliary tree. Hepatic abscess may also arise as a direct extension of adjacent upper abdominal suppuration or as a complication of blunt or penetrating trauma to the liver. Several authors have noted that suppuration may complicate metastatic tumors in the liver. 2*3*5~'~18~1'931~32Robertson et al. reported a series of 37 patients with liver abscess in which seven cases occurred in patients with intrahepatic tumor nodules. 32 Well-documented examples of intrahepatic infection and metastases are, however, rare. 3~11*32The present report describes a patient who, one year following resection of a cloacogenic carcinoma of the rectum, presented with a large intrahepatic abscess whose walls contained met-

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Diagnostic problems of pyogenic hepatic abscess

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Pyogenic liver abscess.

Pyogenic liver abscess.

Abscesses of the Liver: Surgical Considerations

Anaerobic liver abscess and intrahepatic metastases.A case report and review of the literature

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