Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report

Clostridium septicum infections are generally associated with gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancies. We report the first case of hepatic metastases infection with Clostridium septicum that followed alcohol injection of liver lesion. Clinicians should consider this possibility in patients with...

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Autores principales: Saleh, Neam, Sohail, Muhammad R, Hashmey, Rayhan H, Al Kaabi, Mohammed
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20072687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9408
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author Saleh, Neam
Sohail, Muhammad R
Hashmey, Rayhan H
Al Kaabi, Mohammed
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description Clostridium septicum infections are generally associated with gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancies. We report the first case of hepatic metastases infection with Clostridium septicum that followed alcohol injection of liver lesion. Clinicians should consider this possibility in patients with underlying malignancy who present with hepatic abscess, as prompt surgical drainage and empiric antibiotics may be life saving.
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spelling pubmed-28064032010-01-14 Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report Saleh, Neam Sohail, Muhammad R Hashmey, Rayhan H Al Kaabi, Mohammed Cases J Case Report Clostridium septicum infections are generally associated with gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancies. We report the first case of hepatic metastases infection with Clostridium septicum that followed alcohol injection of liver lesion. Clinicians should consider this possibility in patients with underlying malignancy who present with hepatic abscess, as prompt surgical drainage and empiric antibiotics may be life saving. BioMed Central 2009-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2806403/ /pubmed/20072687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9408 Text en Copyright ©2009 Saleh et al; 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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Saleh, Neam
Sohail, Muhammad R
Hashmey, Rayhan H
Al Kaabi, Mohammed
Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title_full Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title_fullStr Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title_short Clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
title_sort clostridium septicum infection of hepatic metastases following alcohol injection: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20072687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9408
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