Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity

Abscess of the ligamentum teres is one of the rarest causes of acute abdomen and causes severe dilemma and real challenge in clinching the diagnosis. A 69-year-old lady with severe upper abdominal pain with history of gall stones underwent MRI upper abdomen and was diagnosed as abscess of the ligame...

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Autores principales: Bhattacharya, Kaushik, Reddy, Praveenchandra, Bhutia, Prem Dorjee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2021
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Images in Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34334976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-03053-0
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description Abscess of the ligamentum teres is one of the rarest causes of acute abdomen and causes severe dilemma and real challenge in clinching the diagnosis. A 69-year-old lady with severe upper abdominal pain with history of gall stones underwent MRI upper abdomen and was diagnosed as abscess of the ligamentum teres. There are only very few reported cases of this entity in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-83106942021-07-26 Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity Bhattacharya, Kaushik Reddy, Praveenchandra Bhutia, Prem Dorjee Indian J Surg Images in Surgery Abscess of the ligamentum teres is one of the rarest causes of acute abdomen and causes severe dilemma and real challenge in clinching the diagnosis. A 69-year-old lady with severe upper abdominal pain with history of gall stones underwent MRI upper abdomen and was diagnosed as abscess of the ligamentum teres. There are only very few reported cases of this entity in the literature. Springer India 2021-07-26 2022-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8310694/ /pubmed/34334976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-03053-0 Text en © Association of Surgeons of India 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_full Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity
title_fullStr Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity
title_short Abscess of the Ligamentum Teres: a Rare Entity
title_sort abscess of the ligamentum teres: a rare entity
topic Images in Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34334976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12262-021-03053-0
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