Liver Abscess

"Liver Abscess" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Solitary or multiple collections of PUS within the liver as a result of infection by bacteria, protozoa, or other agents.

Descriptor ID	D008100
MeSH Number(s)	C01.539.830.025.020.455 C06.552.597
Concept/Terms	Liver Abscess Liver Abscess Abscess, Liver Abscesses, Liver Liver Abscesses Abscess, Hepatic Abscesses, Hepatic Hepatic Abscess Hepatic Abscesses

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Liver Abscess".

Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Infection [C01.539]
Suppuration [C01.539.830]
Abscess [C01.539.830.025]
Abdominal Abscess [C01.539.830.025.020]
Liver Abscess [C01.539.830.025.020.455]
Digestive System Diseases [C06]
Liver Diseases [C06.552]
Liver Abscess [C06.552.597]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Liver Abscess".

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	1	1
1998	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1
2018	2	0	2

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Devulapalli KK, Fidelman N, Soulen MC, Miller M, Johnson MS, Addo E, El-Haddad G, Nutting C, Morrison J, Farsad K, Lokken RP, Gaba RC, Fleming J, Brown DB, Kwan SW, Rose SC, Pennycooke KA, Liu DM, White SB, Gandhi R, Lazar AA, Kerlan RK. 90Y Radioembolization for Hepatic Malignancy in Patients with Previous Biliary Intervention: Multicenter Analysis of Hepatobiliary Infections. Radiology. 2018 Sep; 288(3):774-781.

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Watchmaker JM, Lipnik AJ, Fritsche MR, Baker JC, Mouli SK, Geevarghese S, Banovac F, Omary RA, Brown DB. Are prophylactic antibiotics necessary prior to transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with native biliary anatomy? J Surg Oncol. 2018 May; 117(6):1312-1317.

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Khan W, Sullivan KL, McCann JW, Gonsalves CF, Sato T, Eschelman DJ, Brown DB. Moxifloxacin prophylaxis for chemoembolization or embolization in patients with previous biliary interventions: a pilot study. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Aug; 197(2):W343-5.

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Hori T, Ueda M, Oike F, Ogura Y, Ogawa K, Nguyen JH, Yonekawa Y, Takada Y, Egawa H, Yoshizawa A, Sibulesky L, Balci D, Chen F, Baine AM, Uemoto S. Graft loss and poor outcomes after living-donor liver transplantation owing to arterioportal shunts caused by liver needle biopsies. Transplant Proc. 2010 Sep; 42(7):2642-4.

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Lublin M, Bartlett DL, Danforth DN, Kauffman H, Gallin JI, Malech HL, Shawker T, Choyke P, Kleiner DE, Schwartzentruber DJ, Chang R, DeCarlo ES, Holland SM. Hepatic abscess in patients with chronic granulomatous disease. Ann Surg. 2002 Mar; 235(3):383-91.

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Schlossberg D, Pandey M, Reddy R. The Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon in hepatic botryomycosis. J Clin Pathol. 1998 May; 51(5):399-400.

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Singh N, Gayowski T, Wagener MM, Marino IR. Bloodstream infections in liver transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus. Clin Transplant. 1997 Aug; 11(4):275-81.

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Hoffman JP, Weese JL, Solin LJ, Agarwal P, Engstrom P, Scher R, Paul AR, Litwin S, Watts P, Eisenberg BL. A single institutional experience with preoperative chemoradiotherapy for stage I-III pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Am Surg. 1993 Nov; 59(11):772-80; discussion 780-1.

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Lupatkin H, Br?u N, Flomenberg P, Simberkoff MS. Tuberculous abscesses in patients with AIDS. Clin Infect Dis. 1992 May; 14(5):1040-4.

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Klatchko BA, Schwartz SI. Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pyogenic abscess of the liver. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1989 Apr; 168(4):332-6.

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