Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature

Amoebic liver abscess is a common disease, especially in endemic areas, but it is a rare cause of inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction, with only a few cases appearing in the literature. We report three cases of amoebic liver abscess complicated with obstruction of the IVC and which responded to con...

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Autores principales: Sarda, Anil K, Mittal, Rakesh, Basra, Baljeet K, Mishra, Anurag, Talwar, Nikhil
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3304619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494081
http://dx.doi.org/10.3350/kjhep.2011.17.1.71
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author Sarda, Anil K
Mittal, Rakesh
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description Amoebic liver abscess is a common disease, especially in endemic areas, but it is a rare cause of inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction, with only a few cases appearing in the literature. We report three cases of amoebic liver abscess complicated with obstruction of the IVC and which responded to conservative treatment or radiological intervention.
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spelling pubmed-33046192012-03-20 Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature Sarda, Anil K Mittal, Rakesh Basra, Baljeet K Mishra, Anurag Talwar, Nikhil Korean J Hepatol Case Report Amoebic liver abscess is a common disease, especially in endemic areas, but it is a rare cause of inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction, with only a few cases appearing in the literature. We report three cases of amoebic liver abscess complicated with obstruction of the IVC and which responded to conservative treatment or radiological intervention. The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 2011-03 2011-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3304619/ /pubmed/21494081 http://dx.doi.org/10.3350/kjhep.2011.17.1.71 Text en Copyright © 2011 by The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature
title_full Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature
title_fullStr Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature
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title_short Three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature
title_sort three cases of amoebic liver abscess causing inferior vena cava obstruction, with a review of the literature
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