Fatal Case of Liver and Brain Abscesses Due to Fusobacterium nucleatum

Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic gram-negative organism regarded as an oral commensal. We present a case of a 63-year-old male presenting with weakness, encephalopathy and right upper quadrant palpable mass found to have F. nucleatum liver abscess with innumerable intracranial abscesses. F. n...

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Autores principales: Toumeh, Nadia, Mudireddy, Megha, Smith, Bradley, Guerrero, Dubert M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976461
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19671
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author Toumeh, Nadia
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description Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic gram-negative organism regarded as an oral commensal. We present a case of a 63-year-old male presenting with weakness, encephalopathy and right upper quadrant palpable mass found to have F. nucleatum liver abscess with innumerable intracranial abscesses. F. nucleatum is a rare cause of concomitant liver and brain abscesses associated with odontogenic infection with potentially fatal outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-86829492021-12-30 Fatal Case of Liver and Brain Abscesses Due to Fusobacterium nucleatum Toumeh, Nadia Mudireddy, Megha Smith, Bradley Guerrero, Dubert M Cureus Internal Medicine Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic gram-negative organism regarded as an oral commensal. We present a case of a 63-year-old male presenting with weakness, encephalopathy and right upper quadrant palpable mass found to have F. nucleatum liver abscess with innumerable intracranial abscesses. F. nucleatum is a rare cause of concomitant liver and brain abscesses associated with odontogenic infection with potentially fatal outcomes. Cureus 2021-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8682949/ /pubmed/34976461 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19671 Text en Copyright © 2021, Toumeh et al. https://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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682949/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19671
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