Pyogenic liver abscess following acupuncture and moxibustion treatment
Eun Jung Choi1, Sangyeoup Lee, Dong Wook Jeong
1Family Medicine Clinic and Research Institute of Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Korea.
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
|October 10, 2013
Abstract:
Acupuncture treatment is generally regarded as a relatively safe procedure. However, most procedures have some complications and acupuncture treatment is no exception. Reported complications of acupuncture treatment were mostly mild or temporary symptoms, but certain severe adverse effects were also observed. We report here for the first time a case of liver abscess following acupuncture and moxibustion treatment.
