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==Historical Perspective== | ==Historical Perspective== | ||
Hippocrates described pyogenic liver abscess based on the type of fluid recovered from abscess. In 1938, Ocshner and colleagues reported that the major causal factors leading to hepatic abscess were appendicitis and amoebiasis.<ref name="pmid8651751">{{cite journal| author=Huang CJ, Pitt HA, Lipsett PA, Osterman FA, Lillemoe KD, Cameron JL et al.| title=Pyogenic hepatic abscess. Changing trends over 42 years. | journal=Ann Surg | year= 1996 | volume= 223 | issue= 5 | pages= 600-7; discussion 607-9 | pmid=8651751 | doi= | pmc=1235191 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=8651751 }} </ref> | |||
==Classification== | ==Classification== |
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Historical Perspective
Hippocrates described pyogenic liver abscess based on the type of fluid recovered from abscess. In 1938, Ocshner and colleagues reported that the major causal factors leading to hepatic abscess were appendicitis and amoebiasis.[1]