PERINEPHRIC ABSCESS MIMICKING FULMINANT HEPATIC-FAILURE

Citation
S. Teelucksingh et al., PERINEPHRIC ABSCESS MIMICKING FULMINANT HEPATIC-FAILURE, West Indian Medical Journal, 43(2), 1994, pp. 66-67
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
ISSN journal
00433144
Volume
43
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
66 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0043-3144(1994)43:2<66:PAMFH>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We describe a female diabetic patient who presented with features sugg estive of hepatobiliary disease and who exhibited clinical signs of fu lminant hepatic failure. Identification and drainage of a right perine phric abscess resulted in prompt resolution of both the physical signs and biochemical indices of liver disease. Infection remote from the h epatobiliary tree can mimic fulminant hepatic failure, and recognition of this unusual presentation of infection is important if dangerous d elay in diagnosis and treatment is to be avoided