Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 7, Issue 11 , Page e65, November 2009

Pyogenic Liver Abscess Spontaneously Drained Into the Stomach

  • Eugenio Caturelli

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Strada Sammartinese, Viterbo, Italy
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  • Paola Roselli

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Strada Sammartinese, Viterbo, Italy
    • ,
  • Giorgia Ghittoni

      Affiliations

    • VI Dipartimento di Medicina Interna ed Ecografia Interventistica, Policlinico “S. Matteo” IRCCS, Pavia, Italy

published online 25 May 2009.

A 46-year-old Caucasian man presented with septic fever (intermittent, with spikes up to 40.5°C) and intense abdominal pain in the upper quadrants. He had drunk 2 infusions of unspecified herbs of uncertain origin 1 week previously in Jamaica. His fever had started about 2 days after the consumption of such beverages, and increasing abdominal pain had developed shortly afterward.

 

 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

PII: S1542-3565(09)00453-4

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2009.05.010

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 7, Issue 11 , Page e65, November 2009