Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences (Apr 2013)

Isolated Amoebic Abscess of Spleen

  • Kaushik M,
  • Mahajan S,
  • Raina R,
  • Babu S,
  • Raghav S,
  • Sood S,
  • Guleria R

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal manifestation of amoebiasis. Extrahepatic amoebic abscesses have occasionally been described in the lung, brain, and skin and presumably result from hematogenous spread. Isolated amoebic abscess of spleen has been reported scarcely in literature. We report here a case of isolated amoebic abscess of spleen.