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Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses
Hepatic liver abscesses are often misdiagnosed on initial presentation because pyogenic liver lesions are a rare occurrence in the United States. This leads to a delay in proper treatment and results in increasing morbidity and mortality. Our case report demonstrates the atypical presentation of a h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5959308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796365 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2353 |
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author | Rainwater, Ellecia Gupta, Vritti Vivekanandan, Renuga Gorby, Gary |
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description | Hepatic liver abscesses are often misdiagnosed on initial presentation because pyogenic liver lesions are a rare occurrence in the United States. This leads to a delay in proper treatment and results in increasing morbidity and mortality. Our case report demonstrates the atypical presentation of a hepatic liver abscess in the elderly. The source of infection was found to be periapical abscesses of the teeth, which subsequently seeded the portal blood stream of our patient. Our findings validate the potential hazard of Viridans streptococci and illustrate how untreated dental infections can serve as a reservoir for a systemic infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-59593082018-05-24 Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses Rainwater, Ellecia Gupta, Vritti Vivekanandan, Renuga Gorby, Gary Cureus Medical Education Hepatic liver abscesses are often misdiagnosed on initial presentation because pyogenic liver lesions are a rare occurrence in the United States. This leads to a delay in proper treatment and results in increasing morbidity and mortality. Our case report demonstrates the atypical presentation of a hepatic liver abscess in the elderly. The source of infection was found to be periapical abscesses of the teeth, which subsequently seeded the portal blood stream of our patient. Our findings validate the potential hazard of Viridans streptococci and illustrate how untreated dental infections can serve as a reservoir for a systemic infection. Cureus 2018-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5959308/ /pubmed/29796365 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2353 Text en Copyright © 2018, Rainwater et al. 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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Medical Education Rainwater, Ellecia Gupta, Vritti Vivekanandan, Renuga Gorby, Gary Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title | Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title_full | Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title_fullStr | Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title_full_unstemmed | Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title_short | Maxillary Teeth Abscesses Result in Atypical Liver Abscesses |
title_sort | maxillary teeth abscesses result in atypical liver abscesses |
topic | Medical Education |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5959308/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29796365 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2353 |
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