Amcebic abscess of the liver when not properly treated tends to increase in size and often ruptures into the adjacent tissues, viz, lung, pleura, peritoneum, pericardium or abdominal wall, and less commonly into the stomach, duodenum or hepatic flexure. An effusion may occur into the pleural or peritoneal cavities as a result of direct spread of the inflammation from the advancing abscess. Absc...

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 obs...

Amoebiasis is an uncommon disease in developed countries. Its clinical presentation can be variable and non-specific, and the diagnosis can be easily overlooked. We report a case of colonic amoebic abscess mimicking advanced colonic cancer with acute intestinal obstruction and liver metastasis. The presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of amoebiasis are also reviewed.

Background: Hippocrates described about liver abscess in 460-377 B.C. Liver is term for a collection of purulent material parenchyma, which due to bacterial, fungal, parasitic or mixed infection.Aims and Objectives: To study the clinical profile patients abscess, causative factors, various treatment modalities morbidity, mortality, prognosis associated with abscess.Material Methods: Prospective...

Patients ranged from those with no prior diagnosis of or suspected exposure to Entamoeba histolytica to those with proven amoebic liver abscesses (extraintestinal disease). A comparison of serologies from patients with proven and suspected amoebiasis or possible past exposure revealed good correlation between the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) procedure and the other methods used, counteri...

Peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) from patients with invasive amoebiasis, i.e. amoebic liver abscess (ALA) and acute amoebic dysentery, showed marked elevation of nitroblue tetrazolium dye (NBT) reduction. This dramatic change was not observed in PMN from patients with non-invasive amoebiasis, i.e. non-suppurative hepatic amoebiasis, or in asymptomatic Entamoeba histolytica cy...

Considering the high incidence of amoebic and pyogenic liver abscess in the developing world, occurrence of inferior vena cava thrombosis secondary to liver abscess is a rare but life threatening complication. We report 4 such complicated cases of liver abscess(s). The first case involved a large caudate lobe abscess extending across middle hepatic vein into suprahepatic inferior vena cava (IVC...