Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases

Neonatal hepatic abscess is a rare disease seen mainly in preterm following umbilical catheterisation. Liver abscess in term neonates without any predisposing factor is still rarer and only few cases have been reported in the literature. Here we report two cases of liver abscess in term neonates pre...

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Autores principales: Khan, Niyaz Ahmed, Choudhury, SR, Jhanwar, Praveen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27433449
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v5i3.335
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description Neonatal hepatic abscess is a rare disease seen mainly in preterm following umbilical catheterisation. Liver abscess in term neonates without any predisposing factor is still rarer and only few cases have been reported in the literature. Here we report two cases of liver abscess in term neonates presenting with abdominal mass due to rupture.
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spelling pubmed-49424312016-07-18 Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases Khan, Niyaz Ahmed Choudhury, SR Jhanwar, Praveen J Neonatal Surg Case Series Neonatal hepatic abscess is a rare disease seen mainly in preterm following umbilical catheterisation. Liver abscess in term neonates without any predisposing factor is still rarer and only few cases have been reported in the literature. Here we report two cases of liver abscess in term neonates presenting with abdominal mass due to rupture. EL-MED-Pub 2016-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4942431/ /pubmed/27433449 http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v5i3.335 Text en Copyright: © 2016 JNS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Khan, Niyaz Ahmed
Choudhury, SR
Jhanwar, Praveen
Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title_full Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title_fullStr Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title_full_unstemmed Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title_short Ruptured Liver Abscess in Neonates: Report of Two Cases
title_sort ruptured liver abscess in neonates: report of two cases
topic Case Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4942431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27433449
http://dx.doi.org/10.21699/jns.v5i3.335
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