Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis

Pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon entities with potentially devastating consequences requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment. Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic, gram-negative oral commensal that has been seldom reported as a cause of liver abscess, particularly in immunocompetent hosts...

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Autores principales: Chauhan, Shaylika, Gidwani, Vipul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209529
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10971
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description Pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon entities with potentially devastating consequences requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment. Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic, gram-negative oral commensal that has been seldom reported as a cause of liver abscess, particularly in immunocompetent hosts. We describe a case of an 80-year-old female patient presenting with a fusobacterium liver abscess associated with thrombosis of the left cephalic vein.
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spelling pubmed-76676072020-11-17 Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis Chauhan, Shaylika Gidwani, Vipul Cureus Internal Medicine Pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon entities with potentially devastating consequences requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment. Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic, gram-negative oral commensal that has been seldom reported as a cause of liver abscess, particularly in immunocompetent hosts. We describe a case of an 80-year-old female patient presenting with a fusobacterium liver abscess associated with thrombosis of the left cephalic vein. Cureus 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7667607/ /pubmed/33209529 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10971 Text en Copyright © 2020, Chauhan 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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Chauhan, Shaylika
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Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title_full Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title_fullStr Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title_short Unusual Fusobacterium Nucleatum Infection Presenting as a Liver Abscess Associated With Cephalic Vein Thrombosis
title_sort unusual fusobacterium nucleatum infection presenting as a liver abscess associated with cephalic vein thrombosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209529
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10971
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