title: Acute abdomen due to eosinophilic colitis with liver abscess.
abstract: Eosinophilic colitis is an uncommon condition and rarely presents as acute abdomen. We report a 65-year-old man who presented with acute abdomen-- severe pain in upper abdomen, with pyrexia, tachycardia, guarding and right-sided intercostal tenderness--secondary to eosinophilic colitis and was successfully managed. He had additional problems in form of cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, cholangitis, pyogenic liver abscesses and gout.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and GI Surgery, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospitals, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu 641 004, India. kgvignesh@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Gokul Vignesh
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Kandaswamy
authors.forename: Sathish T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jeyasingh
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D000368:Aged; D003092:Colitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D046290:Liver Abscess, Pyogenic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*