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.
Genel
Ferah
F
Departments of Pediatrics, Dr Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. ferahgen@yahoo.com
Atlihan
Fusun
F
Targan
Seref
S
Gulez
Nesrin
N
Hacikara
Sukriye
S
Karaca
Irfan
I
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