Liver Infarction due to Liver Abscess
Author(s) -
Akio Ashida,
Hiroshi Matsukawa,
Jyoji Samejima,
Keita Fujii,
Hiroyuki Adachi,
Yoshihiro Ishikawa,
Naoto Kato,
Masakazu Kawamoto,
Jun Fujisawa,
Yasushi Rino,
Toshio Imada
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
digestive surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1421-9983
pISSN - 0253-4886
DOI - 10.1159/000144654
Subject(s) - medicine , general surgery , surgery
nosed segment III infarction due to liver abscess, because CT scan showed the cluster sign characteristic of a liver abscess [1, 2] . We performed an operation for lavage and drainage ( fig. 2 ). Nine days later, CT examination revealed that the abscess cavity had become smaller and the infarction area had a transformed abscess ( fig. 1 b). Five months later, CT examination revealed that the lateral segment of the liver was entirely reduced ( fig. 1 c). Case
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