Guerra-Macías I, Cutié-Taquechel G, Castañeda-Urdaneta FA

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ABSTRACT

The clinical case of a 79-year-old man with chronic alcoholism and other associated comorbidities presented, admitted with a fever of three days of evolution and suspected diagnosis of dengue at the Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Docente “Dr. Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo”, from Santiago de Cuba province. By multidisciplinary consensus, a pyogenic liver abscess of subsegments VII-VIII of the liver was diagnosed. An emergency laparotomy was performed with drainage of the purulent collection. He presented superficial infection of the surgical site, but the postoperative evolution was satisfactory and he was discharged cured 7 days later.

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