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Shaylika Chauhan1, Vipul Gidwani2
1Internal Medicine, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, USA.
Abstract:
Pyogenic liver abscesses are uncommon entities with potentially devastating consequences requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment. Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic, gram-negative oral commensal that has been seldom reported as a cause of liver abscess, particularly in immunocompetent hosts. We describe a case of an 80-year-old female patient presenting with a fusobacterium liver abscess associated with thrombosis of the left cephalic vein.
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