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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yamuna Kondapally, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
Amoebic liver abscess must be differentiated from other diseases that cause fever, abdominal pain, cough, jaundice, hepatomegaly, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and pale or dark stools such as pyogenic liver abscess, fungal liver abscess, necrotic hepatoma, echinococcal cyst and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Differential Diagnosis
Amoebic liver abscess must be differentiated from:[1]
Disease | Causes | symptoms | Lab Findings | Imaging Findings | Other Findings | ||||||||||
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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) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| |||
Pyogenic liver abscess | Bacteria
|
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔
(acute loss) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Pale/dark | ||||
Fungal liver abscess | Candida species | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
Echinococcal (hydatid) cyst | Echinococcus granulosus | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
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Malignancy
(Hepatocellular carcinoma/Metastasis) |
|
✔
(uncommon) |
✔ | ✔ | Other symptoms:
|
References
- ↑ Lipsett PA, Huang CJ, Lillemoe KD, Cameron JL, Pitt HA (1997). "Fungal hepatic abscesses: Characterization and management". J Gastrointest Surg. 1 (1): 78–84. PMID 9834333.