Pyogenic Liver Abscess Spontaneously Drained Into the Stomach
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.
⁎Unità Operativa di Gastroenterologia, Ospedale Belcolle, Strada Sammartinese, Viterbo, Italy
‡VI Dipartimento di Medicina Interna ed Ecografia Interventistica, Policlinico “S. Matteo” IRCCS, Pavia, Italy
Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.
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