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Ryosuke Yamasaki1, Takahiro Oishi1, Fumiko Nakamura1
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Kansai Medical University Osaka Japan.
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Abstract
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Six months after a CT scan showed a linear hyperdense focus within the liver, an 81-year-old man was diagnosed with a hepatic abscess. Emergency laparotomy with abscess drainage was performed. A foreign body was extracted from the hepatic penetration site and identified as a fish bone.
