• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.441-443
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• 2013

Liver abscess following ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunting occurs very rarely. We report an unusual case of multiple liver abscesses caused by Staphylococcus capitis in a 50-year-old compromised woman due to a complicating VP shunt infection. We reviewed the nine cases of VP shunt complications reported in the English literature, and speculated that the most likely pathogenetic mechanism in our case is an infected peritoneal tip that migrated to and penetrated the liver, which subsequently caused the formation of multiple liver abscesses. The patient was successfully treated with percutaneous aspiration, drainage of the abscesses, intravenous antibiotics, and shunt revision. Awareness and vigilance of the possibility of liver abscess formation caused by VP shunt infection will help establish an early accurate diagnosis and therapeutic strategy.

• 대한미생물학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 1976

There are many of anaerobic culture methods and equipments for isolation and cultivation of anaerabic bacteria, but most of these methods are used without pre-reduced media. Gas-jet method is a recommend. able method for the culture of anaerobes, resently developed. Bacteriological studies were experimented of liver abscess of cattle by the use of gas. jet method. The results were summarised as follows; 1. Gas-jet method for anaerobic culture are expedient for the making of pre-reduced media, maintaining of oxygen free condition in the culture tube, picking of bacteria from colony and colony counting etc. 2. A 121 strains of facultative anaerobic and anaerobic bacteria were isolated from liver abscess of 27 head of cattle, and the isolated anaerobic bacteria were as follows. Peptostreptococcus spp. 7 strains Acid aminococcus fermentans 1 Veillonella spp. 1 Bacterioides spp. 6 Bifidobacterium spp. 4 Arachinia propionica 2 Lactobacillus spp. 4 Propionibacterium acnes 1 3. Liver abscess were infected with many of bacteria, about $10^3-10^9$ numbers per gram of abcessed tissue. Almost of abscess were mixed infection of various bacterial species rather than simple species.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제45권11호
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• pp.1426-1429
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• 2002

저자들은 재태연령 35주 2일, 출생 체중 2.19 kg으로 출생시 낮은 Apgar score(1/2)와 흉부 촬영상 우측 횡격막 거상을 보였던 환아에서 복부 초음파 검사와 컴퓨터 단층촬영을 시행하여 간 우엽에 생긴 단발성 농양을 발견하였으며 초음파를 이용한 경피적 천자 흡인물 배양 검사에서 포도상 구균이 검출된 선천성 간농양 1례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.53-58
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• 1968

Both primary hepatoma and amebic liver abscess are probably the most common space-occupying disease of the liver in Korea, and the importance of their accurate distinction can not be overemphasized. Radiogold hepatoscanning has been widely used at St. Mary's Hospital, and recently blood disappearance rate of colloidal $^{198}Au$ has been introduced in the study of hepatic ailments. A review of the literature revealed few previous publications concerning the differential features of the two conditions although some characteristic scan findings of each condition have been described. The present study is aimed at a critical review and analysis of various photoscan findings and blood disappearance rate determinations of colloidal $^{198}Au$ of 34 cases of primary hepatoma and 30 cases of amebic liver abscess. Among many scan manifestations, prominence of the uninvolved liver tissue, "hemispherical cold area," and splenic uptake are much more commonly encountered in primary hepatoma and the blood disappearance rate tends to be far more frequently delayed in primary hepatoma than in abscess providing at least a statistically useful basis of distinction of the two diseases.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.496-499
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• 2013

Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is rare in healthy children. We report a case of PLA in an immunocompetent 12-year-old boy. Percutaneous catheter drainage was performed for the abscess. In addition, parenteral antibiotics were administered for 3 weeks. Klebsiella pneumoniae was detected in the culture of blood and drained fluid. Here, we present this case and a brief review of the literature on this subject.

• 대한족부족관절학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.107-110
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• 2022

Klebsiella pneumoniae is known to cause an invasive syndrome characterized by primary liver abscess associated with metastatic infection. The characteristics of the metastatic infection involving the musculoskeletal system in this invasive syndrome are not well understood. The authors present a case report of a patient who developed abscesses of the lower extremities along with abscesses of multiple organs, such as the liver and eye, caused by K. pneumoniae. The patient was diagnosed early, and the infection was successfully controlled after several surgical treatments.

• 대한핵의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한핵의학회 1966년도 제5회 학술대회
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• pp.88.1-88.1
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• 1966

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2013

간농양은 선진국과 개발도상국에서 발생빈도에 차이가 있는 질환으로 국내에서는 드물다. 면역결핍, 간, 담도계기형, 천공성 충수염, 외상, 단백질 결핍 등의 선행요인이 있을 때 발생하기 쉬우며 Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus, Bacteroides와 Entamoeba histolytica 등에 의해 유발된다. 저자들은 발열을 주소로 내원한 건강한 12세 남아에서 컴퓨터 단층촬영을 시행하여 간농양을 발견하였으며 경피배액술 흡인물 배양 검사에서 Staphylococcus epidermidis가 검출되어 항생제를 투여하여 합병증 없이 치료하였기에 보고한다.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.253-255
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• 2008

A 61-year-old man had a F-18 FDG PET/CT scan for evaluation of a common bile duct cancer identified on CT. The PET/CT image showed a hypermetabolic mass in the common bile duct, and a focal area of increased F-18 FDG uptake in segment IV of the liver, which corresponded to a hypoattenuated lesion on non-enhanced CT, and was consistent with hepatic metastasis. The patient underwent choledochojejunostomy with hepatic resection, and pathologic findings were compatible with an eosinophilic abscess in the liver. This case demonstrates that F-18 FDG uptake by an eosinophilic abscess can mimic hepatic metastasis in a patient with a malignancy.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.108-111
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• 2004

저자들은 발열과 복통을 호소하는 15세 남아에서 항결핵 약물로 호전된 매우 드문, 간과 비장의 결핵성 농양 1례를 경험하여 보고하는 바이다.