Liver Abscess Caused by Ingestion of a Sewing Needle

Liver abscesses have a low incidence and can be caused by multiple etiologies. We present an interesting case of a 74-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain and leukocytosis. Imaging revealed a foreign body in the antrum of the stomach extending to an area of hypodensity in the liver. She...

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Autores principales: Basquez, Ryan L, Butt, Ifrah, Billings, Ashley, Pippin, Micah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760625
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8924
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description Liver abscesses have a low incidence and can be caused by multiple etiologies. We present an interesting case of a 74-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain and leukocytosis. Imaging revealed a foreign body in the antrum of the stomach extending to an area of hypodensity in the liver. She was taken for an exploratory laparotomy and was found to have a gastric perforation due to a sewing needle. The needle had embedded in the liver causing the formation of an abscess. The patient was successfully treated with surgical management and a course of antibiotics.
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spelling pubmed-73923652020-08-04 Liver Abscess Caused by Ingestion of a Sewing Needle Basquez, Ryan L Butt, Ifrah Billings, Ashley Pippin, Micah Cureus Family/General Practice Liver abscesses have a low incidence and can be caused by multiple etiologies. We present an interesting case of a 74-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain and leukocytosis. Imaging revealed a foreign body in the antrum of the stomach extending to an area of hypodensity in the liver. She was taken for an exploratory laparotomy and was found to have a gastric perforation due to a sewing needle. The needle had embedded in the liver causing the formation of an abscess. The patient was successfully treated with surgical management and a course of antibiotics. Cureus 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392365/ /pubmed/32760625 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8924 Text en Copyright © 2020, Basquez 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 Liver Abscess Caused by Ingestion of a Sewing Needle
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title_full_unstemmed Liver Abscess Caused by Ingestion of a Sewing Needle
title_short Liver Abscess Caused by Ingestion of a Sewing Needle
title_sort liver abscess caused by ingestion of a sewing needle
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760625
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8924
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