title: Amoebic liver abscess imitating metastatic caecal carcinoma.
abstract: This case discusses a patient whose initial investigations suggested an incurable carcinoma with a poor prognosis, but which later transpired to be an unusual but treatable infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine for Older People, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK. jan.ritchie@btopenworld.com
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ritchie
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Malykh
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rowland
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male