Amoebic liver abscess imitating metastatic caecal carcinoma.
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.
Ritchie
Jan
J
Department of Medicine for Older People, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK. jan.ritchie@btopenworld.com
Harper
Adam
A
Malykh
Vladimir
V
Rowland
Jeremy
J
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002430:Cecal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male