Year 2019 / Volume 111 / Number 10
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A giant liver abscess due to Fasciola hepatica infection

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2019.6136/2018

Ernesto Ángel Dzib Calan, Ivanhoe Larracilla Salazar, Jorge Iván Morales Pérez,

Abstract
A 60-year-old female patient with a 3-month history of upper right quadrant pain, nausea, fluid evacuation, yellowing, weight loss, intolerance to the oral route, liver disease and hepatomegaly without impaired liver function tests Performs diagnosis by CT scan of giant hepatic abscess, which is managed by means of percutaneous drainage and antibiotic, is determined as etiology, infection by hepatic fasciola.
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Received: 20/12/2018

Accepted: 05/01/2019

Online First: 23/09/2019

Published: 03/10/2019

Article Online First time: 277 days

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