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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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Autores principales: Rainwater, Ellecia, Gupta, Vritti, Vivekanandan, Renuga, Gorby, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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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
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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.
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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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