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Case Reports
. 2019 Dec 14:2019:4259646.
doi: 10.1155/2019/4259646. eCollection 2019.

Retained Foreign Body Causing a Liver Abscess

Guek Gwee Sim  1 , Sujata Kirtikant Sheth  1
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Retained Foreign Body Causing a Liver Abscess

Guek Gwee Sim et al. Case Rep Emerg Med. .

Abstract

Introduction: A liver abscess caused by fishbone ingestion is extremely rare in the Emergency Department.

Case report: We report a case of a middle-aged female who presented to the Emergency Department with nonspecific symptoms. Computed tomography showed a liver abscess that had formed secondary to a fishbone. The patient was treated conservatively initially and subsequently with percutaneous drainage and finally with open drainage. Her condition improved and she was discharged from the hospital with the foreign body still in-situ.

Conclusion: This case is one of six cases in literature where the patient has been discharged successfully from the hospital with a retained fishbone. It also demonstrates the difficulty of diagnosing a foreign body causing a liver abscess and the multiple treatment modalities used to treat a liver abscess caused by fishbone.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Computed tomography of the abdomen and pelvis with foreign body.
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