Fatal hepatic abscess caused by a fish bone [3]

Lancet

Volumn 359, Issue 9310, 2002, Pages 977-

  Theodoropoulou, Angeliki ^a   Roussomoustakaki, Maria ^a   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis N ^a   Kanaki, Catherine ^a   Kouroumalis, Elias A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISEASE COURSE; EATING HABIT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; FISH; GALLBLADDER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH; STOMACH WALL;

EID: 0037117132     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)07999-0     Document Type: Letter

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1. A fish bone in the liver
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3. Hepatic abscess due to gastric perforation by ingested fish bone demonstrated by computed tomography
4. Liver abscess secondary to fish bone penetration of the gastric wall: A case report
5. Hepatic abscess secondary to a fishbone penetrating the gastric wall: CT demonstration