Crespo RE, Guanche GH, Ruz HM, Castañeda HM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: amoebic hepatic abscess is the extraintestinal manifestation of an infection by entamoeba histolytica. Estimations are made that 10% of the world population has been infected by the parasite, being more frequent in tropical regions, where overcrowding and bad sanitary conditions occur. Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asian and India have considerable health problems, resulting from this disease. In Cuba amebiasis has been proved not to be one of the most frequent parasitism cases.
Case presentation: male patient of age 48 years and of Indian nationality, presenting clinical findings, which proves a unique lesion in the right liver lobule, diagnosed by ultrasound scan and nuclear magnetic resonance. The presence is confirmed of serum antibodies against entamoeba histolytica. Treatment with metronidazole produced clinical and radiological improvement.
Conclusions: atypical clinical presentation constitutes a remarkable element worthy considered in daily clinical practice.

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