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Our patient was initially diagnosed to have liver abscesses. Although amoebic liver abscess is the predominant cause of liver abscess in India, hepatocellular carcinoma with necrosis and metastatic colonic cancer with central necrosis need consideration in the differential diagnosis. Only one case of PHL mimicking liver abscess[3] has been reported earlier. Lymphomas may cause portal venous obstruction either by direct infiltration, extrinsic compression at the porta by lymph nodes, tumor thrombus of the portal vein or by a hypercoagulable state. Direct portal infiltration was probably the cause in the present case. PHL causing portal venous obstruction has not been reported, although tumor thrombus in the portal vein has been described in patients with secondary lymphoma.[4]