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. 2021 Mar 5;59(1):93-98.
doi: 10.2478/rjim-2020-0035. Print 2021 Mar 1.

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a fungal liver abscess using a lumen-apposing metal stent: case report and literature review

Felice Molinario  1 , Mihai Rimbaş  2   3 , Giuseppe Alessandro Pirozzi  4 , Gianenrico Rizzatti  2   5 , Gianluca Spera  1 , Guido Costamagna  6   5 , Alberto Larghi  2   5
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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a fungal liver abscess using a lumen-apposing metal stent: case report and literature review

Felice Molinario et al. Rom J Intern Med. .
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Abstract

Liver abscesses are rare entities for which percutaneous drainage is traditionally employed. The technique is simple, but associated with a significant rate of side effects and patient discomfort. We herein report a case of fungal left liver lobe abscess that was successfully treated by using EUS-guided drainage, with insertion of a large caliber lumen-apposing metal stent. The literature review we performed on the topic seems to favor, at least for abscess in the left and/or caudate liver lobes, EUS as compared to percutaneous drainage.

Keywords: drainage; endoscopic ultrasound; humans; liver abscess; lumen apposing metal stents.

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