Study design: Single case report. Objectives: To present an unusual cause of fever in a patient with spinal cord injury (SCI). Setting: University Hospital, Belgium. Methods: A 52-year-old man with a ...

HEPATIC pyemia signifies invasion of the liver by pyogenic organisms, resulting in the formation of single or multiple liver abscesses. The widespread use of antibiotics has not eliminated this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More patients with pyogenic liver abscess were diagnosed with colorectal cancer vs. controls (1.9% vs. 0.8%).

A variety of infectious agents may involve the liver, some of which have a distinctive appearance. Below is a description of some of the most important of these. Pyogenic abscess shows central ...

A 34-year-old otherwise healthy Vietnamese man, living in Canada for four years, attended the emergency department with a three-week history of abdominal pain and fever. He had a leukocyte count of 14 ...

Read at the meeting of the New England Surgical Society, at Hartford, Conn., October 1, 1932. Barney — Chief of Service, Urological Department, Massachusetts General Hospital. For record and address ...

A 47-year-old man presented with a one-week history of fever (temperature up to 40.4°C), abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant and mild jaundice. He had no history of diarrhea. Apart from a ...