Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess

Chikwendu Jeffrey Ede, Sanju Sobnach, Delawir Kahn, Ahmed Bhyat

Case Reports in Surgery · 2015 · 15 citations · 4 references

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Liver abscess formation due to enterohepatic migration of a foreign body is extremely rare. Foreign body ingestion is generally an unconscious and painless event, thus complicating preoperative diagnosis in most patients. We report the case of a 61-year-old man who presented with secondary peritonitis from a ruptured hepatic abscess after an ingested fish bone migrated into the liver.

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