Case Reports in Surgery (Jan 2015)

Enterohepatic Migration of Fish Bone Resulting in Liver Abscess

  • Chikwendu Ede,
  • Sanju Sobnach,
  • Delawir Kahn,
  • Ahmed Bhyat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/238342
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2015

Abstract

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Liver abscess formation due to enterohepatic migration of a foreign body is extremely rare. Foreign body ingestion is generally an unconscious and painless event, thus complicating preoperative diagnosis in most patients. We report the case of a 61-year-old man who presented with secondary peritonitis from a ruptured hepatic abscess after an ingested fish bone migrated into the liver.