Makkar Priyanka, Sunkara Tagore, Jhaveri Manan, Berger Judith, Gaduputi Vinaya, Babich Jay P
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Division of Infectious Diseases, SBH Health System, 4422 Third Ave, Bronx, NY 10457, USA.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affiliate of The Mount Sinai Hospital, 121 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA.
J Clin Med Res. 2017 Nov;9(11):962-964. doi: 10.14740/jocmr3184w. Epub 2017 Oct 2.
Liver abscess is the most common type of visceral abscess reported in the United States. Biliary tract disease is the most common cause of the development of liver abscess. In the last decade, many cases of liver abscesses silently manifesting as colon cancer have been reported in East Asian countries. We herein describe a case of an immunocompetent man who immigrated from East Africa to Unites States and presented with a suspicion of colon mass with metastasis to the liver, and who was later diagnosed to have a colonic malignancy with a concomitant liver abscess. Our aim was to make clinicians aware of the importance of ruling out occult colonic malignancy in patients with idiopathic liver abscess.
肝脓肿是美国报告的最常见的内脏脓肿类型。胆道疾病是肝脓肿形成的最常见原因。在过去十年中，东亚国家报告了许多隐匿表现为结肠癌的肝脓肿病例。我们在此描述一例免疫功能正常的男性病例，该患者从东非移民到美国，因怀疑结肠肿物伴肝转移就诊，后来被诊断为结肠恶性肿瘤合并肝脓肿。我们的目的是让临床医生意识到在特发性肝脓肿患者中排除隐匿性结肠恶性肿瘤的重要性。
