title: Unusual liver abscess secondary to ingested foreign body: laparoscopic management.
abstract: Liver abscess is a cause of febrile abdominal pain and usually the origin of a liver abscess is ascending cholangitis, hemathological diffusion, via the portal vein or the hepatic artery, or superinfection of necrotic tissue. Solitary pyogenic abscess with no obvious systemic cause may be secondary to a local event such as the migration of an ingested foreign body. We report the case of a solitary liver abscess caused by an ingested foreign body, a fish bone, migrated through the gastric wall into the left lobe.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Panebianco
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Lozito
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prestera
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ialongo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Volpi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carbotta
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Palasciano
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome