Fulminant amoebiasis in a child with recurrent multiple amoebic liver abscesses and pleuropulmonary complications.
A 5-year-old boy with recurrent liver abscesses and pleural empyema, presumed to be amoebic, is described. Despite surgical drainage of the liver and thoracic wall combined with metronidazole and chloroquine, he died 7 weeks after admission.
Departments of Pediatrics, Dr Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. ferahgen@yahoo.com
Ferah
F
Genel
Fusun
F
Atlihan
Seref
S
Targan
Nesrin
N
Gulez
Sukriye
S
Hacikara
Irfan
I
Karaca
D000562:Amebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000628:therapy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence