"Liver Abscess, Pyogenic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Single or multiple areas of PUS due to bacterial infection within the hepatic parenchyma. It can be caused by a variety of BACTERIA, local or disseminated from infections elsewhere such as in APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; PERITONITIS; and after LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D046290
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.830.025.020.455.730 C06.552.597.758
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| Concept/Terms |
Liver Abscess, Pyogenic- Liver Abscess, Pyogenic
- Abscess, Pyogenic Liver
- Abscesses, Pyogenic Liver
- Liver Abscesses, Pyogenic
- Pyogenic Liver Abscesses
- Pyogenic Liver Abscess
- Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess
- Abscess, Pyogenic Hepatic
- Abscesses, Pyogenic Hepatic
- Hepatic Abscess, Pyogenic
- Hepatic Abscesses, Pyogenic
- Pyogenic Hepatic Abscesses
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Liver Abscess, Pyogenic" by people in Profiles.
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Njoku VC, Howard TJ, Shen C, Zyromski NJ, Schmidt CM, Pitt HA, Nakeeb A, Lillemoe KD. Pyogenic liver abscess following pancreaticoduodenectomy: risk factors, treatment, and long-term outcome. J Gastrointest Surg. 2014 May; 18(5):922-8.