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
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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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author Ede, Chikwendu
Sobnach, Sanju
Kahn, Delawir
Bhyat, Ahmed
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description 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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spelling pubmed-46550442015-12-02 Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess Ede, Chikwendu Sobnach, Sanju Kahn, Delawir Bhyat, Ahmed Case Rep Surg Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4655044/ /pubmed/26634168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/238342 Text en Copyright © 2015 Chikwendu Ede et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url 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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