Left lobe amoebic liver abscess
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Left lobe amoebic liver abscess.
For reasons which are not quite clear amoebic liver abscesses in the left lobe are relatively uncommon. On account of the lesser bulk of the left lobe, and the potentially greater space under the left hemidiaphragm, expansive lesions within it remain less obtrusive than corresponding lesions in the right. Sixteen such cases are analysed and five distinct modes of clinical presentation have been...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.52.607.269