Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate

We report a 28-day-old neonate presenting with signs of fever, abdominal distension, and refusal to feed. The baby was diagnosed to have multiple liver abscesses which ruptured and a tract lead to the pericardium resulting in a pyo-pericardium. Laparoscopic drainage of the abscess cavities and the p...

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Autores principales: Ravishankaran, Praveen, Rajamani, G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20975789
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70648
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description We report a 28-day-old neonate presenting with signs of fever, abdominal distension, and refusal to feed. The baby was diagnosed to have multiple liver abscesses which ruptured and a tract lead to the pericardium resulting in a pyo-pericardium. Laparoscopic drainage of the abscess cavities and the pyo-pericardium was performed. An extensive search of the literature revealed that this case is the youngest one to have undergone such simultaneous laparoscopic drainage.
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spelling pubmed-29527832010-10-22 Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate Ravishankaran, Praveen Rajamani, G. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report We report a 28-day-old neonate presenting with signs of fever, abdominal distension, and refusal to feed. The baby was diagnosed to have multiple liver abscesses which ruptured and a tract lead to the pericardium resulting in a pyo-pericardium. Laparoscopic drainage of the abscess cavities and the pyo-pericardium was performed. An extensive search of the literature revealed that this case is the youngest one to have undergone such simultaneous laparoscopic drainage. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2952783/ /pubmed/20975789 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70648 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title_full Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title_fullStr Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title_full_unstemmed Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title_short Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
title_sort liver abscesses with pyopericardium: laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20975789
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.70648
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