Thirty-six consecutive cases of liver abscess seen at the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Hospital, Dharan, Nepal, from 1995 to 1998, were reviewed. Twenty-one cases were male and 15 female, with a mean age of 42 years. Twenty-four cases (66.7%) were amebic, 7 (19.4%) pyogenic, 3 (8.3%) indeterminate and 2 (5.5%) tuberculous. The most frequent clinical features included fever (88%), leu...

An 80-year-old woman was admitted after a collapse without loss of consciousness. The only symptom reported was urinary frequency with recent treatment for a urinary tract infection. Other significant past medical history included choledocholithiasis, for which she had an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatograph (ERCP) with biliary stenting two years previously. On examination she was apyr...

Background: Of all the visceral abscesses, liver accounts for 48%. When a purulent substance collects in parenchyma as result of bacterial, parasite, fungal, or combination infections, it is called abscess. It prevalent India, accounting second largest prevalence, owing to insufficient sanitation, overcrowding, and malnutrition. As susceptible organ producing whereas amoebic abscess utmost freq...

Background: Pyogenic hepatic abscesses are uncommon conditions that present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to Surgeons. If left untreated, these lesions are invariably fatal. Pyogenic Liver Abscess (PLA) has lower mortality rate in recent year due to the modern management of liver abscesses, facilitated by advances in diagnostic and interventional radiology and improved intensive care se...