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Overview

Causes

Classification

Differential Diagnosis

Pyogenic liver abscess must be differentiated from:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Disease Causes symptoms Lab Findings Imaging Findings Other Findings
Fever Pain cough Hepatomegaly Jaundice Weight loss Anorexia Diarrhoea

or Dysentry

Nausea and

vomiting

Stool
Abdominal pain

(right upper quadrant pain)

Pleuritic pain
Amoebic liver abscess Entamoeba histolytica ✔✔✔ ✔✔✔ ✔/✘ ✔✔/✘

(late stages)

(late stages)

Hypoalbuminemia

(✔)

  • Respond well to chemotherapy and rarely require drainage
  • Marked male predominance
  • More common in developing countries
  • Sero-positive
  • Right lobe is more frequently involved
Pyogenic liver abscess Bacteria
  • Gram-positive aerobes
  • Gram-negative enterics
  • Anaerobic organisms
  • Acid fast bacilli
✔✔ ✔✔ ✔/✘ ✔✔✔

(acute loss)

Pale/dark Hypoalbuminemia

(✔✔✔)

Cluster sign
  • CT scan shows cluster sign
  • Aggregation of multiple low attenuation liver lesions in a localized area to form a solitary larger abscess cavity
  • Abnormal pulmonary findings
  • Diabetes mellitus increases the risk
  • Medical-surgical approach is indicated
  • More common in developed countries
  • Culture positive and sero-negative
  • Both lobes are commonly involved
Fungal liver abscess Candida species
Aspergillus species
✔/✘ CT and Us findings with four patterns of presentation:
  • Wheel-within-a-wheel pattern
  • Bull’s-eye configuration pattern
  • Uniformly hypoechoic nodule
  • echogenic foci with variable degrees of posterior acoustic shadowing
  • Less common
  • Pure fungal abscess or associated with pyogenic abscess
  • Candida and Aspergillus are commonly found in the culture of aspirated pus
  • Associated with underlying malignancy or DM
Echinococcal (hydatid) cyst Echinococcus granulosus

(Obstructive jaundice)

Histology: Hydatid cyst with three layers

a.The outer pericyst, which corresponds with compressed and fibrosed liver tissue

b.The endocyst, an inner germinal layer

c.The ectocyst, a thin, translucent interleaved membrane

Ultrasound:
  • Cystic to solid-appearing pseudotumors
  • Water lily sign
  • Calcifications seen peripherally
  • Blood or liquid from the ruptured cyst may be coughed up
  • Pruritis
Malignancy

(Hepatocellular carcinoma/Metastasis)

(uncommon)

✔✔ ✔✔ Pale/Chalky
  • High levels of AFP in serum
  • Abnormal liver function tests
Other symptoms:

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