Saudi man's liver abscess relapse

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Diagnostic dilemma: A fish bone wandered through a man's abdomen and stabbed his liver

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A 45-year-old man in Saudi Arabia went to the hospital after experiencing six consecutive days of abdominal pain and fever.

Doctors performed an ultrasound of the man's abdomen and found an abscess — a pus-filled mass — in the right lobe of his liver.

They drained the abscess and gave the patient a 10-day course of antibiotics.

His fever subsided, and the man was sent home.

A month later , the man ended up in the hospital with a fever above 102.4 degrees Fahrenheit ( 39.1 degrees Celsius) The doctors performed a type of abdominal surgery called a laparotomy to remove the foreign object.

It turned out to be a fish bone.

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