A case of pyogenic liver abscesses in a previously healthy adolescent man

An 18-year-old, previously healthy man admitted with abdominal pain, high-grade fevers, nausea and emesis was found to have multiple hepatic abscesses. Aspiration cultures grew Fusobacterium necrophorum, a rare bacterium causing potentially fatal liver abscesses in humans. Following sequential percu...

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Autores principales: Mentel, Dena A., Cameron, Danielle B., Gregg, Shea C., Cholewczynski, Walter, Savetamal, Alisa, Crombie, Roselle E., Possenti, Paul P., Atweh, Nabil A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25389131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju118

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