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Abstract
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.
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- Liver Abscess, Pyogenic
- Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess
- Abscess, Pyogenic Hepatic
- Abscess, Pyogenic Liver
- Abscesses, Pyogenic Hepatic
- Abscesses, Pyogenic Liver
- Hepatic Abscess, Pyogenic
- Hepatic Abscesses, Pyogenic
- Liver Abscesses, Pyogenic
- Pyogenic Hepatic Abscesses
- Pyogenic Liver Abscesses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coordinate IM with specific organism infection term (IM)
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2005
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Previous Indexing
- Liver Abscess (1966-2004)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pyogenic Liver Abscess. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D046290. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D046290
- Pyogenic Liver Abscess. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyogenic_liver_abscess
- Pyogenic Liver Abscess. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7263138