title: A liver-lung connection.
abstract: A 35-year-old man presented with cough, expectoration of green sputum, and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. Symptoms had begun the previous day and he had vomited the night before. The patient also complained of chronic fatigue, a 12-lb. weight loss, insomnia, right-sided back pain, and lower extremity myalgias. He denied having had fever, chills, diaphoresis, dyspnea, diarrhea, dysuria, abdominal pain, skin lesions, or jaundice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology