Recurrent upper quadrant pain: a fish bone secondary to gastric perforation and liver abscess.
A 60-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital for recurrent upper quadrant pain for 1 month. He had a past history of coronary artery disease. After admission, he repeatedly suffered from high-grade fever, chills and upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed a round hypodense mass in the left lobe of the liver, approximately 2.7 × 2.2 cm in size, and a fish bone was confirmed by surgery in the left lobe of liver. The patient was cured completely after surgical removal of the fish bone and liver abscess. CT scan 1 month after discharge showed that the liver abscess had disappeared completely.
Department of General Surgery, Zhuhai People's Hospital, Zhuhai, China.
Hui
H
Liang
Ou-Qi
OQ
Liu
Xin-Bo
XB
Ai
Da-Qi
DQ
Zhu
Jin-Lan
JL
Liu
An
A
Wang
Fei-Yue
FY
Gong
Cong
C
Hu