Retained Foreign Body Causing a Liver Abscess

Table 4

Cases of fishbones causing liver abscess’s and particulars on each case.

First Author	Year	Treatment	Symptoms	Suffering period	Size	Penetration	Bacteria	Mortality	Retained FB
Venkatesh [13]	2015	Laparotomy	Fever, abdominal pain RUQ tenderness	5 days	1.4 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe	Klebsiella, Proteus vulgaris, Citrobacter freundii, and Alpha hemolytic Streptococcus	No	No
Masoodi [14]	2012	Laparotomy	Fever, abdominal pain RUQ tenderness	10 days	2.5 cm	Duodenum, right liver lobe		No	No
Horii [15]	1999	Percutaneous abscess drainage and endoscopic forceps	Fever, vomiting	2 week	2.8 cm		Streptococcus constellatus	No	No
De la Vega [16]	2001	Autopsy	Abdominal pain, vomiting		2.5 cm	Right liver lobe		Yes	No
Tomimori [17]	2004	Laparotomy	Epigastric pain	4 weeks	1 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe	Streptococcus constellatus	No	No
Kessler [18]	2001	Laparotomy	Abdominal pain, vomiting	4 weeks		Duodenum, left liver lobe	Eikenella corrodens	No	No
Theodoropoulou [19]	2002	Endoscopy, laparoscopy, laparotomy
Chan [20]	1999	Laparotomy	Abdominal pain			Stomach		No	No
Tsai [21]	1999	Lapartomy	Abominal pain, fever		3.7 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Shuldais [22]	1992					stomach		No	No
Masunaga [23]	1991	Percutaneous abscess drainage, parcial gastrectomy and lateral segmentectomy	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	1 week	4 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Gonzalez [24]	1998	Laparotomy	Abdominal pain, fever, jaundice, nausea	1 month		Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Aron [25]	1966	Laparotomy	Astenia, fever, jaundice	3 month	2.2 cm	Stomach, right liver lobe	E. coli, Proteus	No	No
Tsuboi [26]	1981	Laparotomy	Epigastic pain, weight loss	1 month	4.5 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Dugger [27]	1990	Autopsy	Fever, right upper abdominal pain	3 week	3 cm	Stomach, right liver lobe	E. coli, Proteus	Yes	No
Lee [28]	2005	Laparotomy	Epigastric pain	5 days	3.5 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe	Streptococcus milleri	No	No
Goh [29]	2005	Laparotomy	Fever	5 days	3 cm	Duodenum, left liver lobe	Streptococcus milleri	No	No
Chen [30]	2011					Duodenum
Yang [31]	2005	IV antibiotics	Chills, fever	1 week		Left liver lobe	Klebsiella pneumoniae and aerobic, gram-positive bacilli	No	Yes
Peixoto [32]	2016	IV antibiotics	Fever, chills, RUQ pain	2 days	3.0 cm	Pylorus		No	Yes
Fan [33]	2002	Laparotomy	Fever, cough, abdominal pain	1 week	3.5 cm	Antrum, left liver lobe	Streptococcus milleri	No	No
Chen [12]	2013	Percutaneous abscess drainage and laparotomy	Abdominal pain, chills, fever	4 days	5.0 cm	Duodenum, left lobe liver	Strep viridans	No	No
Santos [2]	2007	Percutaneos abscess drainage, laparotomy	Abdominal pain, fever, asthenia	6 week		Antrum, left liver lobe		No	No
Clarencon [34]	2008	Percutaneos abscess drainage, IV antibiotics, laparotomy, hepatotomy	Abdominal pain	4 weeks	2.3 cm	Duodenum, liver	Streptococcus sp.	No	No
Ng C T [11]	2011	IV antibiotics	Acute MI	2 days				No	Yes
Chikwendu [35]	2015	Laparotomy	Abdominal pain	3 weeks	6 cm	Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Panebianco [1]	2015	Explorative laparoscopy	Epigastric pain, fever	2 weeks	4 cm	Antrum, left liver lobe		No	No
Kadowaki [36]	2007	Laparotomy	Fever, upper abdominal pain	1 week	2.8 cm	Hepatoduode nal fistula, left liver lobe	E. coli and anerobic gram positive cocci	No	No
Gigirey [37]	2012	Percutaneous abscess with fisbone migration to gastric lumen removal by stool	Abdominal pian RUQ pain, fever	15 days	2.5 cm	Antrum, left liver lobe		No	No
Laterre [8]	2014	Laproscopy, laparotomy	Dyspnea, fever	3 days	3 cm	duodenum	Streptococcus hemolyticus (group G) and Streptococcus sanguis	No	No
Jimenes- Fuertes [38]	2016	Laparotomy	Epigastric and RUQ pain	2 days		Duodenum, liver		No	No
Chun [32]	2016	Percutaneous abscess with laproscopy	RUQ pain, fever, chills, rigors	2 weeks		Left liver lobe		No	No
Morelli [33]	2015	IV antibiotics and laproscopy	Abdominal pain, fever, chills, jaundice		3 cm	Antrum, left liver lobe	Streptococcus constellatus	No	No
Akimori [34]	2013	IV antibiotics and laproscopy	Fever, malaise			Lesser curveture, liver		No	No
Kosar [42]	2014	Laproscopy and percutaneous drainage	Fever			Lesser curveture, left liver lobe
Wu [43]	2016	IV antibiotics, laproscopy, laparotomy	Abdominal pain, fever, epigastric, RUQ pain	6 days		Duodenum, liver		No	No
Yen [44]	2010	Laparotomy	Upper abdominal pain, fever	2 weeks		Left liver lobe		No	No
Bandeira-de- Mello [45]	2018	Percutaneous abscess drainage and laproscopy	Epigastric pain, fever	6 days	2.5 cm	Lesser curveture, left liver lobe	Group C beta-hemolytic streptococcus, streptococcus sp. (viridans)	No	No
Matrella [6]	2014	Laparotomy	Epigastric pain and fever	10 days
Motallebzadeh [46]	2014	Endoscopy and biopsy forceps	Right upper quadrant pain			Antrum, liver		No	No
Liang [47]	2011	Percutaneous drain and Laparotomy	Upper quadrant pain	1 month		Stomach, left liver lobe		No	No
Kim [48]	2010	Colonoscopy	Right upper and lower quadrant pain	2 weeks	Two 1.5 cm	Acensding colon and right liver lobe		No	No
Yu [49]	2018	Laproscopy, laparotomy	Epigastric pain, fever, anorexia, nausea and vomiting	8 days	3	Left liver lobe		No	No
Beckers [50]	2019	Percutaneous drainage and laparoscopy	Fever, right upper quadrant pain, anorexia, shivering and confusion	3 days	3.5	Left liver lobe	Streptococcus anginosus and Streptococcus constellatus	No	No
Sun [51]	2018	Laparotomy	Fever and right upper quadrant pain	3 days	3	Left liver lobe	Streptococcus anginosusStreptococcus constellatus and Peptostreptococcus asaccharolyticus	No	No
Queiroz [52]	2019	Laparotomy	Epigastric pain and fever	10 days		Gastric antrum and left liver lobe		No	No
Jarry [53]	2011	Laparoscopy, laparotomy	Right upper quadrant pain, asthenia, anorexia and fever	2 weeks	3.5	Left liver lobe		No	No
Bekki [54]	2019	Laparoscopy	Fever and anorexia		2.4	Left liver lobe	Streptococcus anginosus	No	No
Chen [55]	2019	Laparoscopy	Epigastric pain	2 months	1.7	Left liver lobe		No	No
Dias [56]	2018	Laparotomy	Fever and abdominal pain		2.7	Left liver lobe		No	No
Burkholder [57]	2019	Percutaneous drainage	Fever, right upper quadrant pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea	8 days	2.1 cm	At level of falciform fissure	Alpha hemolytic streptococcus	No	Yes
Graça [58]	2019	Laparoscopy	Shivering and fever	3 days		Left liver lobe	Streptococcus constellatus and Escherichia coli	No	No
Sivarajah [59]	2018	Percutaneous drainage and laparotomy	Epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting	3 days	3.5	Left liver lobe		No	No
Mateus [60]	2018	Percutaneous drainage and laparotomy	Abdominal pain and constipation	3 days	5	Left liver lobe	Streptococcus constellatus	No	No
Mateus [60]	2018	Percutaneous drainage	Weakness, chills, myalgia and cough	2 days		Left liver lobe	Streptococcus anginosus, Streptococcus viridans, Prevotella bivia and Bacteroides fragilis	No	Yes