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A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess

Liver abscess is a rare complication seen in Crohn's disease (CD) and has been rarely reported. Our aim is to illustrate a case of liver abscess in a patient with CD and the importance of a complete history and physical examination in identifying the potential cause of a hepatic abscess in an i...

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Autores principales: Jain, Akriti G, FaisalUddin, Mohammed, Gllava, Idljona, Gordon, Dwayne, Guan, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30820378
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3758
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author Jain, Akriti G
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description Liver abscess is a rare complication seen in Crohn's disease (CD) and has been rarely reported. Our aim is to illustrate a case of liver abscess in a patient with CD and the importance of a complete history and physical examination in identifying the potential cause of a hepatic abscess in an immune competent individual in who the diagnosis of CD was apparently ignored for two years before she presented to us. Although the manifestation of a hepatic abscess without any perianal abscess or fistula in CD is extremely rare, recognition of this would facilitate the diagnosis and appropriate management of abscess and CD.
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spelling pubmed-63890262019-02-28 A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess Jain, Akriti G FaisalUddin, Mohammed Gllava, Idljona Gordon, Dwayne Guan, Jian Cureus Internal Medicine Liver abscess is a rare complication seen in Crohn's disease (CD) and has been rarely reported. Our aim is to illustrate a case of liver abscess in a patient with CD and the importance of a complete history and physical examination in identifying the potential cause of a hepatic abscess in an immune competent individual in who the diagnosis of CD was apparently ignored for two years before she presented to us. Although the manifestation of a hepatic abscess without any perianal abscess or fistula in CD is extremely rare, recognition of this would facilitate the diagnosis and appropriate management of abscess and CD. Cureus 2018-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6389026/ /pubmed/30820378 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3758 Text en Copyright © 2018, Jain 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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Jain, Akriti G
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A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess
title A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess
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title_fullStr A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Crohn’s Disease Manifesting as a Large Liver Abscess
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title_sort rare case of crohn’s disease manifesting as a large liver abscess
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389026/
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