1. Ruptured Amebic Liver Abscess
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Toyokazu Kawano, Takashi Kanematsu, Tomohiro Toda, Yuji Ichiyoshi, Yukinori Okazaki, Keizo Sugimachi, Yoshikazu Minamisono, and Susumu Nagasaki
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,lcsh:Surgery ,Entamoeba histolytica ,Japan ,medicine ,Entamoeba histolytica Infection ,Animals ,Humans ,Stage (cooking) ,lcsh:RC799-869 ,Aged ,Ultrasonography ,Hepatology ,biology ,Rupture, Spontaneous ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,lcsh:RD1-811 ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Prognosis ,Surgery ,Liver Abscess, Amebic ,lcsh:Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology ,Good prognosis ,business ,Amebic liver abscess ,Liver abscess ,Research Article - Abstract
We treated two patients with a ruptured amebic liver abscess. The diagnosis was made at a relatively early stage and treatment was successful for one patient, but an accurate diagnosis of liver abscess was not made and invasive extraintestinal amebiasis led to multiple organ failure and to death for the other. Neither patient had been outside of Japan, and both were heterosexual. The origins of Entamoeba histolytica infection could not be determined. Though the mortality rate is high in cases of ruptured amebic liver abscess, appropriate management can lead to a good prognosis.
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- 1990
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