A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma

We present the case of a patient, with previously unknown liver metastases, presenting with a liver abscess and Clostridium septicum septicaemia. C. septicum is known to be associated with both malignancy and immunosuppression and therefore in patients where this organism is isolated, efforts must b...

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Autores principales: Khan, Azhar A, Davenport, Kim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16646975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-12
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description We present the case of a patient, with previously unknown liver metastases, presenting with a liver abscess and Clostridium septicum septicaemia. C. septicum is known to be associated with both malignancy and immunosuppression and therefore in patients where this organism is isolated, efforts must be made to exclude an occult underlying malignancy or haematological disorder.
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spelling pubmed-14598652006-05-13 A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma Khan, Azhar A Davenport, Kim Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report We present the case of a patient, with previously unknown liver metastases, presenting with a liver abscess and Clostridium septicum septicaemia. C. septicum is known to be associated with both malignancy and immunosuppression and therefore in patients where this organism is isolated, efforts must be made to exclude an occult underlying malignancy or haematological disorder. BioMed Central 2006-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1459865/ /pubmed/16646975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-12 Text en Copyright © 2006 Khan and Davenport; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title_full A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title_fullStr A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title_full_unstemmed A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title_short A reminder of the association between Clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
title_sort reminder of the association between clostridium septicum and colonic adenocarcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459865/
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