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Do amoebic liver abscesses start as large lesions? Case report of an evolving amoebic liver abscess
S P Robinson1, D Remedios, R N Davidson
1Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Northwick Park & St Mark's NHS Trust, Harrow, Middlesex, UK.
The Journal of Infection
|November 20, 1998
Abstract:
Amoebic liver abscesses (ALA) are characteristically large lesions at presentation, but their development in man has not previously been described. We present a case of an ALA that over the course of 2 days developed from an undetectable lesion to a 5 cm diameter lesion. This clinical history suggests that the pathogenesis of ALAs may pursue an acute rather than a chronic course.