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Retained Foreign Body Causing a Liver Abscess

INTRODUCTION: A liver abscess caused by fishbone ingestion is extremely rare in the Emergency Department. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a middle-aged female who presented to the Emergency Department with nonspecific symptoms. Computed tomography showed a liver abscess that had formed secondary to...

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Autores principales: Sim, Guek Gwee, Sheth, Sujata Kirtikant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31934467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4259646
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description INTRODUCTION: A liver abscess caused by fishbone ingestion is extremely rare in the Emergency Department. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a middle-aged female who presented to the Emergency Department with nonspecific symptoms. Computed tomography showed a liver abscess that had formed secondary to a fishbone. The patient was treated conservatively initially and subsequently with percutaneous drainage and finally with open drainage. Her condition improved and she was discharged from the hospital with the foreign body still in-situ. CONCLUSION: This case is one of six cases in literature where the patient has been discharged successfully from the hospital with a retained fishbone. It also demonstrates the difficulty of diagnosing a foreign body causing a liver abscess and the multiple treatment modalities used to treat a liver abscess caused by fishbone.
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spelling pubmed-69427472020-01-13 Retained Foreign Body Causing a Liver Abscess Sim, Guek Gwee Sheth, Sujata Kirtikant Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report INTRODUCTION: A liver abscess caused by fishbone ingestion is extremely rare in the Emergency Department. CASE REPORT: We report a case of a middle-aged female who presented to the Emergency Department with nonspecific symptoms. Computed tomography showed a liver abscess that had formed secondary to a fishbone. The patient was treated conservatively initially and subsequently with percutaneous drainage and finally with open drainage. Her condition improved and she was discharged from the hospital with the foreign body still in-situ. CONCLUSION: This case is one of six cases in literature where the patient has been discharged successfully from the hospital with a retained fishbone. It also demonstrates the difficulty of diagnosing a foreign body causing a liver abscess and the multiple treatment modalities used to treat a liver abscess caused by fishbone. Hindawi 2019-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6942747/ /pubmed/31934467 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4259646 Text en Copyright © 2019 Guek Gwee Sim and Sujata Kirtikant Sheth. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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/PMC6942747/
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