Ultrasonographic resolution time for amebic liver abscess.
Hepatic ultrasonography not only can be used to detect amebic liver abscess, but can follow its resolution. Twenty-five patients with 32 abscesses had hepatic sonography performed repeatedly. Sonography clearly demonstrated abscesses of 1-22 cm; 19 patients (76%) had abscesses only in the right lobe of the liver, and 22 (88%) had solitary abscesses. Resolution time ranged from 2 months for the smallest abscess to 20 months for the largest. Four abscesses initially had a heterogenous partially solidified pattern. All abscesses healed completely, leaving normal hepatic sonographic patterns.
Ahmed
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Kasr El Aini Hospital, Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt.
Salama
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el Rooby
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Strickland
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008795:Metronidazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography
D008795:Metronidazole