Original Article

Amebic Liver Abscess

Authors: ROBERT L. DORROUGH M.D.

Abstract

Early diagnosis, morbidity and mortality are less favorable for amebic hepatic abscess in Atlanta than in Korea. The explanation is simply the failure to include this clinical entity in a differential diagnosis of disease of the liver. American clinicians are too commonly unaware of this complication of amebiasis.

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