Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess

Liver abscess formation due to enterohepatic migration of a foreign body is extremely rare. Foreign body ingestion is generally an unconscious and painless event, thus complicating preoperative diagnosis in most patients. We report the case of a 61-year-old man who presented with secondary peritonit...

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Autores principales: Ede, Chikwendu, Sobnach, Sanju, Kahn, Delawir, Bhyat, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/238342
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Sumario:Liver abscess formation due to enterohepatic migration of a foreign body is extremely rare. Foreign body ingestion is generally an unconscious and painless event, thus complicating preoperative diagnosis in most patients. We report the case of a 61-year-old man who presented with secondary peritonitis from a ruptured hepatic abscess after an ingested fish bone migrated into the liver.

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