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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 41(4), 1989, pp. 406-410
Copyright © 1989 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Ultrasonographic Resolution Time for Amebic Liver Abscess

Laila Ahmed, Zakaria A. Salama, Abushady El Rooby AND G. Thomas Strickland
Kasr El Aini Hospital, Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt; U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Hepatic ultrasonography not only can be used to detect amebic liver abscess, but can follow its resolution. Twenty-five patients with 32 abscesses had hepatic sonography performed repeatedly. Sonography clearly demonstrated abscesses of 1–22 cm; 19 patients (76%) had abscesses only in the right lobe of the liver, and 22 (88%) had solitary abscesses. Resolution time ranged from 2 months for the smallest abscess to 20 months for the largest. Four abscesses initially had a heterogenous partially solidified pattern. All abscesses healed completely, leaving normal hepatic sonographic patterns.






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