title: Three cases of liver abscesses complicated with colon cancer without liver metastasis: importance of screening for digestive disease.
abstract: We treated 3 patients complicated with colon cancer without liver metastasis, who were admitted to our hospital because of a high fever and diagnosed with liver abscesses. In a general screening after performing percutaneous transhepatic abscess drainage, colon cancer was detected in each, though hepatobiliary diseases were not found. Hepatobiliary diseases were the most common etiology of hepatic abscesses in our hospital in the past 41 cases from 1990 to 2005, 3 of which were due to colon cancer. If a cause is not determined, general screening, especially of the colon tract, should be performed in hepatic abscesses patients.
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital. c-ahiraoka@eph.pref.ehime.jp
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Hiraoka
authors: Yoshimasa
authors: Y
authors: Yamashita
authors: Kazuhiro
authors: K
authors: Uesugi
authors: Yohei
authors: Y
authors: Koizumi
authors: Yasunori
authors: Y
authors: Yamamoto
authors: Hirokazu
authors: H
authors: Doi
authors: Aki
authors: A
authors: Hasebe
authors: Soichi
authors: S
authors: Ichikawa
authors: Makoto
authors: M
authors: Yano
authors: Yasunao
authors: Y
authors: Miyamoto
authors: Tomoyuki
authors: T
authors: Ninomiya
authors: Bunzo
authors: B
authors: Matsuura
authors: Norio
authors: N
authors: Horiike
authors: Kojiro
authors: K
authors: Michitaka
authors: Yoichi
authors: Y
authors: Hiasa
authors: Saburo
authors: S
authors: Nishikage
authors: Morikazu
authors: M
authors: Onji
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003113:Colonoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male